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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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06JAKARTA13324INDONESIA'S INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Embassy Jakarta provides the following interim assessment of targeted actions by Indonesia on trafficking in persons (TIP) since the June release of the 2006 TIP report, as requested in ref A. Anti-Trafficking Legislation ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) A comprehensive anti-tra [...]
2006-11-28 09:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV ELAB KWMN SMIG ID
06JAKARTA13326INDONESIA'S ECONOMIC RECOVERY REMAINS ON TRACK
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia's economy continues to recover from the impact of August 2005 rupiah "mini-crisis," with growth in gross domestic product (GDP) reaching 5.5% year-on- year (YoY) in the third quarter. Strong external demand for Indonesian commodities and increased household consumptio [...]
2006-11-28 09:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13328AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FORMER PRESIDENT HABIBIE
[...] (C) On November 27 the Ambassador met with former President B.J. Habibie at his residence in suburban Jakarta. Looking relaxed and displaying characteristic energy and enthusiasm, the former President declared President Bush's November 20 visit a success, discussed his recently released memoir [...]
2006-11-28 09:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA13329INTER-EMBASSY POLITICAL ISLAM CONTACT GROUP'S
[...] (C) Summary. On November 9, representatives from the British, Canadian, Japanese, New Zealand, Dutch, Singaporean and U.S. embassies in Jakarta met to establish a political Islam contact group; representatives from the Australian and German embassies will participate in future meetings. Most [...]
2006-11-28 23:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA13341INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO REVISED PROPOSED TEXT FOR A
[...] (C) We delivered the revised text of the draft agreement for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Indonesia (ref a) on November 15 to Harry Purwanto, Director for North and Central American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). We noted that the text had been revised with a [...]
2006-11-29 10:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALID KTIA MARR MOPS PREL
06JAKARTA13358East Java Mudflow: Methane Line Explodes
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pertamina's main East Java methane gas line ruptured near the PT. Lapindo Brantas (Lapindo) mud volcano site in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java on November 22, causing power outages and permanently closing the Surabaya-Malang toll road. No American Citizens were among the 14 dead a [...]
2006-11-30 09:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET PGOV CACS ID
06JAKARTA13361MEGAWATI SURVEYS THE INDONESIAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
[...] (C) During a November 28 meeting with the Ambassador, former President Megawati Soekarnoputri avoided discussing whether she would consider cooperating with President Yudhoyono's government, bemoaned the increasing influence of Islamists in Indonesian politics, and outlined the challenges of d [...]
2006-11-30 09:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13362BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON
[...] (U) Summary. The Indonesian Air Force (IAF) verified their orders of component parts detailed in reftel. The foreign consignees are new to the military supply business, however they have prior Indonesian government procurement experience. End summary. 2. (U) We contacted Chief of Aeron [...]
2006-12-01 00:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC ECON ID SN
06JAKARTA13370INDONESIA - DECEMBER 1 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Dutch hosted a workshop on November 25 and 26 that will make recommendations on animal vaccine strategy to the Ministry of Agriculture. The local television station Lativi began broadcasting AI mini- documentaries on November 10 and will continue these broadcasts through t [...]
2006-12-01 08:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13372YUDHOYONO ALLEGEDLY APPROVES TRYING SOLDIERS IN
[...] (C) Summary: According to media reports citing Indonesian Justice and Human Rights Minister Awaluddin, President Yudhoyono has signaled his support for draft legislation which would clear the way for military personnel charged with criminal acts to be tried in civilian courts. The report, if [...]
2006-12-01 09:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS MARR ID
06JAKARTA13379THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GUS DUR
[...] (C) During a November 30 meeting with the Ambassador, an uncharacteristically reserved former President Abdurrachman Wahid (aka Gus Dur) gave his views on U.S.-Indonesia relations and President Bush's visit, Indonesia's economic shortcomings, and developments within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and th [...]
2006-12-01 09:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13385MUNIR CASE: INDONESIAN POLICE SAY FBI COULD HELP
[...] (S) A police team investigating the case of murdered human rights campaigner Munir will visit FBI Quantico December 4-9, accompanied by Embassy Legatt, for technical assistance in retrieving SMS messages among Munir and those implicated in his murder (Ref A). Lead police investigator Anton C [...]
2006-12-04 07:02:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA13387 NORTH SUMATRA: A TALE OF TWO ECONOMIES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: High prices for rubber and crude palm oil keep North Sumatra's agricultural sector resilient. Industry experts expect the trend to continue as demand for oleochemicals and cooking oil increase, and biodiesel production expands. On the other hand, North Sumatra's manufacturing an [...]
2006-12-04 07:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ENRG ETRD ID
06JAKARTA13392SBY'S CT RECORD AFTER TWO YEARS: A MIXED BAG
[...] (C) Two years into the Yudhoyono Administration, Jakarta remains stalwart in its commitment to identify, arrest, and convict terrorist operatives. The combination of strong political support for tactical CT operations and substantial international assistance has enabled Indonesian law enforce [...]
2006-12-04 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC KISL ID
06JAKARTA13413NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE FIELD STUDIES EAST ASIA
[...] Embassy Jakarta welcomes the proposed visit (reftel) of NWC seminar students to Indonesia in April 2007. Embassy requests precise dates for the visit so that more definite plans can be made. Control officer will be MAJ Marc Harrelson, DAO, office tel: (62-21) 3435-9192, home tel: (62-21) 71 [...]
2006-12-06 07:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS ID
06JAKARTA13419PKS SUFFERS ELECTORAL SETBACK
[...] (C) The ascendant Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) fell just short in its attempt to register a defining victory in the November 26 Banten provincial governor's race. The Banten Electoral Commission certified the election results on December 1 and declared Golkar's Ratu Atut Chosiyah the winner [...]
2006-12-06 08:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13420INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
[...] Summary. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced on November 16 that Indonesia's GDP growth reached 5.5% in the third quarter of 2006 on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the highest quarterly growth rate since the third quarter of 2005. YoY consumer price inflation (CPI) dropped signific [...]
2006-12-06 09:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13421SBY - ABE SUMMIT: PLOWING AHEAD ON TRADE AND ENERGY
[...] (C) Summary. Energy and a planned Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) were the centerpieces of President Yudhoyono's November 26 - 29 state visit to Tokyo. President Yudhoyono and Prime Minister Abe announced that the two sides had "reached agreement in principle" on an Indonesia-Japan EPA, [...]
2006-12-06 09:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EWWT ENRG KN JA ID
06JAKARTA13422INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2006
[...] Summary: On November 22, following three years of bilateral negotiations, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) welcomed home forty-eight orangutans from Thailand. Minister of Health Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari announced plans on November 13 to make Indonesian villages self sufficient in health care [...]
2006-12-06 10:32:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO EINV ETRD ID
06JAKARTA13426ACEH: FRONT RUNNERS IN ELECTION
[...] (U) Summary: As the official campaign period winds down, no pair of candidates has taken a decisive lead in the race to become Aceh Governor and Vice Governor. Three pairs of candidates -- Malek Raden and Fuad Zakaria, Humam Hamid and Hasbi Abdullah, and Azwar Abubakar and Nasir Djamil -- have [...]
2006-12-07 04:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL KDEM KHUM ASEC ID
06JAKARTA13442MUSLIM TELEVANGELIST IN POLYGAMY SCANDAL: FANS,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia's most popular Muslim televangelist, Aa Gym, has admitted to taking a second wife, much to the dismay of Muslim progressives and his adoring female followers. Gym's admission, along with a recent sex scandal involving a politician who tried to take his pop star love [...]
2006-12-08 08:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI KISL ID
06JAKARTA13446ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS-OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2006
[...] Summary. President Yudhoyono said Indonesia will honor its existing LNG contracts during a November 27-29 state visit to Japan. Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on November 25 that Indonesia will decide next year whether to renew those contracts. On November 25, state gas company PGN restored [...]
2006-12-08 09:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA13448East Java Mudflow: Lapindo Defaults,
[...] (SBU) ConGen Pol/econoff and Jakarta USAID officers visited the PT. Lapindo Brantas (Lapindo) mud volcano site and the relief well operation in Porong, East Java (Ref. A) on December 8, meeting with several representatives of contractors working on the relief well. According to the contractor [...]
2006-12-08 09:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13450DPR PASSES NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL BILL
[...] (C) On December 7, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) unanimously passed a bill requiring the creation of a new presidential advisory council within three months. The nine-member council will be charged with advising the President on a full range of issues, its mandate expiring at [...]
2006-12-08 10:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
06JAKARTA13451INDONESIA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS -
[...] Summary. On November 28, Indonesia and Japan agreed in principle to the major elements of a bilateral "Economic Partnership Agreement" (EPA). Parliament approved an amended Customs Law on October 18 that reduces red tape for importers and exporters and imposes stiffer sanctions on smugglers. [...]
2006-12-08 10:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
06JAKARTA13452INDONESIA - DECEMBER 8 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-08 10:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13453ROH, SBY INITIAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN JAKARTA
[...] (C) Summary. On December 4 in Jakarta, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun initialed a comprehensive 32-point "Strategic Partnership" encompassing a wide rage of areas for cooperation. The Partnership serves as a baseline for the development [...]
2006-12-08 11:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG KS ID
06JAKARTA13454AGO TASK FORCE BECOMES OPERATIONAL AS POSO TRIALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Less than four months after the group's official inauguration, the Attorney General's Terrorism and Transnational Crime Task Force is now becoming operational. In October, Post delivered $100,000 worth of computers and other office equipment to the Task Force's newly-renovated [...]
2006-12-08 11:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA13462ACEH HOLDS FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS, THE FIRST
[...] Summary: The U.S. Mission in Indonesia fielded a team of 40 U.S. officials and local support staff to monitor the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11. Embassy's press release, below, provides our endorsement of the election pr [...]
2006-12-11 12:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13473DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ASEAN SUPPORT FOR UNSC
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to contacts in the Directorate of International Security and Disarmament, which handles UNSC issues, and to Gudadi B. Sasongko of the Directorate for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on December 13. We left a copy of t [...]
2006-12-13 11:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM ID
06JAKARTA13475UK CHARITY COMMISSION'S GRIM ASSESSMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary. The UK Charity Commission's Southeast Asia and Pacific representative provided us with his assessment of Indonesia's charities sector on December 5. Indonesia falls far short on legislation governing charities, governmental regulation, and NGO self-regulation. Relations between [...]
2006-12-14 07:21:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ETTC KISL PTER SOCI ID UK
06JAKARTA13476CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES INSULTING THE PRESIDENT
[...] (U) Summary: A divided Constitutional Court on December 7 struck down three articles of the Criminal Code which made insulting the President or Vice President a criminal act. The instant case involved an appeal brought by two political activists being tried for insulting President Yudhoyono [...]
2006-12-14 07:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13478TERRORISM FINANCE: ABAS SIGNS TERMS OF REMOVAL
[...] (SBU) On December 8, 2006, Jakarta's Assistant Legal Attache (ALAT) and POLOFF met with Nasir Abas at the Embassy regarding Ref A letter confirming his acceptance of the terms and conditions for his removal from the United States Department of the Treasury OFAC list of Specially Designated Gl [...]
2006-12-14 08:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETFN PREL PTER ID
06JAKARTA13480FINANCE MINISTER ON OPIC, TAX ISSUES, AND NEC
[...] (SBU) Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told the Ambassador on December 14 that the Directorate General of Taxation (DG Tax) would need to finalize a review of Indonesia's international tax agreements before moving forward on an Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Investment Sup [...]
2006-12-14 09:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL KCOR ID
06JAKARTA13481U.S. OBSERVATION TEAM FOR ACEH ELECTIONS: WHAT WE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A comprehensive post-election analysis of questionnaires returned by members of the official U.S. election observation team confirm our initial report (reftel) that the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11 were fre [...]
2006-12-14 09:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13494AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH MINISTER OF NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Pascoe met with Minister of National Education Dr. Bambang Sudibyo on December 11 to discuss President Bush's six-year, $157 million Indonesia Education Initiative. Minister Sudibyo complained that he was not familiar with the U.S. program and had not been able to e [...]
2006-12-15 08:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDID
06JAKARTA13496AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE AND LOCAL
[...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Pascoe met with Indonesian Minister for Home Affairs Mohammad Ma'ruf on December 12 to discuss cooperation and assistance issues. The Ambassador congratulated the Government of Indonesia on the success of the provincial elections in Aceh, urged closer coordination to [...]
2006-12-15 08:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON ID
06JAKARTA13497INDONESIA ON THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (C) Indonesia's election to the UNSC demonstrates President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) desire to raise his country's international profile. We have recently seen the emergence of a more flexible, multi-faceted style of Indonesian diplomacy, particularly where SBY's personal initiatives a [...]
2006-12-15 09:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM AORC UNSC ID
06JAKARTA13498YUDHOYONO'S VISIT TO RUSSIA: DEFENSE COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia and Russia signed a range of intergovernmental and other agreements during the visit of Indonesian President Yudhoyono to Russia November 29-December  [...]
2006-12-15 10:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR EINV EIND ENRG SOCI ID RS
06JAKARTA13503INDONESIA: 2006 CHILD LABOR UPDATE FOR TRADE AND
[...] This report provides updated information on Indonesia's efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, for the period August 2005 to November 2006. This message updates Jakarta's 2005 report (ref c) and draws in places on Jakarta's March 2006 trafficking in persons report (ref b) and t [...]
2006-12-18 01:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV SOCI KCRM KJUS
06JAKARTA13509INDONESIA'S TOP THREE WANTED TERRORISTS AND A
[...] (S) Summary: Despite hundreds of terrorists arrested by Indonesian authorities in the past several years, three top operatives linked to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) remain on Indonesia's "Most Wanted" list. Of these, Malaysian Noordin Mohammad Top is well known; the other two, Indonesians Abu Duja [...]
2006-12-18 07:26:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KVPR CVIS KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13513ACEH: IMPLICATIONS OF THE GAM VICTORY
[...] (C) Summary: The surprise win of the Free Aceh Movement's (GAM) Irwandi Yusuf in Aceh's gubernatorial election is clear evidence that the province's first direct local elections were genuine and that the peace process is beginning to mature. Irwandi's win is likely to accelerate GAM's transit [...]
2006-12-18 09:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13521FORMER MINISTER DETAINED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
[...] (U) Former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Rokhmin Dahuri was detained on November 30 in conjunction with a Commission for the Eradication of Corruption (KPK) investigation into his administration of an off-budget fund of nearly IDR 32 billion (approximately USD 3.5 million). The fund alleged [...]
2006-12-19 05:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON KCOR ID
06JAKARTA13526INDONESIAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP,
[...] (S/NF) Allegations of increasing influence peddling by the first family......The latest scuttlebutt on possible cabinet moves......Survival of the fittest for Golkar leadership.....Snapshots of likely/possible 2009 presidential contenders.....Continued dissatisfaction with Megawati in the PDI- [...]
2006-12-19 06:47:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA13527INDONESIA - DECEMBER 19 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-19 07:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13528BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON APLICATIONS
[...] Summary. The Indonesian firm PT Trio Yomasu (TY) verified on December 11 its order of component parts for aircrafts detailed in reftel. TY supplies the Indonesian Air Force (IAF) with aircraft spare parts and maintenance services. It also serves as a local representative for U.S. aircraft p [...]
2006-12-19 08:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC ECON ID SN
06JAKARTA13538TERROR TRIALS UPDATE: 12 MORE CONVICTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI Attorney General's Office continues to win convictions against terrorists at an impressive pace. Over the past 6 weeks, twelve Indonesians were convicted of terrorism in trials in Jakarta and Central and East Java. Nine of the 12 convicted were involved with fugitive terr [...]
2006-12-20 08:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KJUS ASEC CASC ID
06JAKARTA13543INDONESIA WANTS NO CHANGE IN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS
[...] (U) On December 18, visiting IO PDAS Warlick met with Slamet Hidayat, Director General for Multilateral Affairs in Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, we urged that Indonesia support retention of the current 22-percent ceiling rate in the UNGA debate on UN assessmen [...]
2006-12-20 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT AORC PREL UNGA ID
06JAKARTA13554DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UAE/UN-HOSTED GLOBAL
[...] (U) We met December 21 with Deputy Minister for Child Protection in the Ministry of Women Empowerment, Ms. Sumarni Dawam Rahardjo, to deliver the demarche contained in reftel. Ms. Rahardjo fully agreed with all the points in reftel, particularly noting the importance of holding the internation [...]
2006-12-21 06:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KWMN SMIG XX KCRM PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13559INDONESIA TAKES STOCK OF ECONOMIC REFORMS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Coordinating Minister for Economics Boediono told a gathering of Embassy and private sector representatives on January 18 that he expects Parliament to pass new investment and tax laws "in the early months of 2007." Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu went further in her description [...]
2006-12-21 09:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13563SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS BA'ASYIR TERRORIST
[...] (U) The Indonesian Supreme Court announced on December 21 it had overturned the conviction of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) spiritual leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. In March 2005, Ba'asyir was sentenced to 30 months in prison for participating in a "sinister conspiracy to cause a fire or explosion that r [...]
2006-12-21 10:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC CASC ID
06JAKARTA13564CWC: STATUS OF INDONESIAN IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION
[...] POLOFF met with Daniel Simanjuntak of the Directorate of International Security and Disarmament at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs on December 13 to present reftel points and discuss the status of Indonesia's implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Simanjuntak sai [...]
2006-12-21 11:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW ID
06JAKARTA13577WIRANTO LAUNCHES NEW PARTY
[...] (C) Summary. Retired General Wiranto unveiled his new political party, the People's Conscience Party (Hanura),on December 21. Flanked by several prominent political and military personalities, the failed 2004 presidential candidate announced his new party would help serve as a vehicle for th [...]
2006-12-22 05:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13578PDAS WARLICK'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: IO PDAS James Warlick discussed Indonesian peacekeeping policy and options with Indonesian Director General for Defense Strategy Dadi Susanto in Jakarta on December 19. Susanto said the UNIFIL deployment to Lebanon was Indonesia's first involving mechanized infantry. Indonesia w [...]
2006-12-22 05:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS ID
06JAKARTA13579IO PDAS WARLICK MEETS WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) Summary. In December 18 meetings with senior officials of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, Principal Deputy Secretary for International Affairs James B. Warlick reviewed our agenda for the upcoming session of the U.N. Security Council, to which Indonesia has been elected as [...]
2006-12-22 05:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC AORC PHUM ID
06JAKARTA13581IMPLICATIONS OF THE BA'ASYIR DECISION
[...] (C) Summary. The decision by Indonesia's Supreme Court to overturn the conviction of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) spiritual leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has a number of potential legal and political implications for the GOI's counterterrorism efforts. While the legal basis behind Ba'asyir's 2005 convi [...]
2006-12-22 08:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KJUS ASEC CASC ID
06JAKARTA13584IO PDAS WARLICK MEETS INDONESIAN NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. In a December 19 meeting with IO PDAS James B. Warlick, Indonesian National Security Advisor Dino Djalal stressed that the GOI takes its upcoming UNSC duties very seriously, and looks forward to a constructive working relationship with the U.S. He said that President Yudhoyono [...]
2006-12-26 09:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC AORC PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA13603CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (U) In a controversial decision, on December 19 the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (CC) ruled that the legal provision which created the Anti-Corruption Court was unconstitutional, but allowed the court to continue functioning for a period of three years. The overturned provision was part [...]
2006-12-28 03:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PCRM KTIA ID
06JAKARTA13609IO PDAS WARLICK'S MEETING WITH FORMER FORMIN ALI
[...] (C) Summary. On December 19, IO PDAS James B. Warlick met with Ali Alatas, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia (1987-99),to discuss Indonesia's upcoming term as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. Alatas said that both President Yudhoyono (SBY) and Foreign Minister Hassan [...]
2006-12-28 09:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC AORC PHUM MNUC KNNP BM IR ID
06JAKARTA13610Aceh: Incoming Governor Blasts Syariah, Syariah Police
[...] (SBU) Summary: Aceh's incoming governor Irwandi Yusuf has publicly vowed to block new Syariah regulations, including a draft law to cut off the hands of convicted thieves, prompting Syariah officials to withdraw temporarily the proposed law pending revision. Meanwhile, out of the public eye Irw [...]
2006-12-28 23:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13613Aceh: Incoming Governor Blasts Syariah,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Aceh's incoming governor Irwandi Yusuf has publicly vowed to block new Syariah regulations, including a draft law to cut off the hands of convicted thieves, prompting Syariah officials to withdraw temporarily the proposed law pending revision. Meanwhile, out of the public eye I [...]
2006-12-29 05:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13615UNSCR 1737 INFORMATION SHARED WITH INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) We met December 28 with Carolina Tinangon, desk officer in the International Security and Disarmament Directorate of Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),to deliver information on implementation of UNSCR 1737 on Iran's nuclear program. Ms. Tinangon was already very familia [...]
2006-12-29 06:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PREL PGOV KNNP UNSC IR ID
06JAKARTA13616NO TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOR INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, the Constitutional Court (CC) scrapped Indonesia,s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, arguing that it was unconstitutional. There are mixed views here about the importance of this decision and the likely impact on the prosecution of past human rights abuses. [...]
2006-12-29 08:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1374INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT TAKES UP DRAFT ACEH LAW
[...] (SBU) The Yudhoyono administration on January 26 delivered its draft Law on Governing Aceh (LOGA) to the House of Representatives (DPR) for debate. The August 15, 2005 GOI-GAM MOU, which ended the armed conflict, requires the law's passage by March 31 -- a deadline that would require legislat [...]
2006-02-02 11:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV EFIN KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA1453INDONESIAN PROSECUTORS TACKLE 12 NEW TERROR CASES
[...] (C) Indonesian prosecutors have brought twelve new terrorism trials to the South Jakarta District Court with the case against Abdullah Sunata headlining this latest tranche (ref A). In Sunata's indictment, prosecutors accuse him of financing terrorism as well as providing assistance to Jemaah [...]
2006-02-03 12:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV KVPR KJUS KISL ASEC CASC AS ID
06JAKARTA1649NEW DRAFT RELIGIOUS DECREE WOULD EASE REQUIREMENTS
[...] (C) Indonesia's latest draft of the joint ministerial decree on the establishment of houses of worship, if approved, would ease requirements compared with earlier versions (ref a). While Christian religious leaders are still dissatisfied with the requirement of 90 members and 70 supporting si [...]
2006-02-08 10:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KIRF KISL ID
06JAKARTA1651HELPING DENMARK AND OTHER EUROPEANS WEATHER THE
[...] (C) Summary: We have maintained close and cooperative contact with our Danish and Norwegian diplomatic colleagues as violent demonstrators have targeted Danish and American diplomatic missions. We have offered various types of security assistance and weighed in with the GOI at senior levels [...]
2006-02-08 11:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL PTER ASEC ID DA
06JAKARTA1652EX-RELIGION MINISTER CONVICTED ON CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI's anti-corruption campaign scored its biggest success to date with the February 7 conviction of former Minister of Religion Said Agil Hussein Al Munawar and an aide for embezzling nearly USD 71 million in funds earmarked to support Indonesians perform the Hajj pilgrimage [...]
2006-02-08 23:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ECON ID
06JAKARTA1653EX-RELIGION MINISTER CONVICTED ON CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI's anti-corruption campaign scored its biggest success to date with the February 7 conviction of former Minister of Religion Said Agil Hussein Al Munawar and an aide for embezzling nearly USD 71 million in funds earmarked to support Indonesians perform the Hajj pilgrimage [...]
2006-02-08 23:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ECON ID
06JAKARTA1817INDONESIA: A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH DEPARTMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan February 1 expressed to SIPDIS Assistant Secretary John Hillen his great pleasure that the U.S. had taken steps to end the "embargo" on military-to-military cooperation and suggested that the countries nee [...]
2006-02-10 11:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1818INDONESIA: A/S HILLEN'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary John Hillen February 1 described to Indonesian Defense Minister the "great anticipation" in the U.S. regarding Indonesia and the U.S. desired a robust relationship with Indonesia. Juwono told A/S Hillen he would do whatever necessary to strengthen this relat [...]
2006-02-10 11:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1819INDONESIA-U.S. POLITICA-MILITARY TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Indonesian delegations held a day of political-military talks February 1 to explore expanded bilateral cooperation following the U.S. decision in November to end restrictions on military-to-military relations. The U.S. delegation, led by Dr. John Hillen, Assistant Secre [...]
2006-02-10 12:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1823AMBASSADOR MEETS COORDINATING MINISTER BAKRIE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Coordinating Minister for Peoples' Welfare Aburizal Bakrie told the Ambassador on February 8 that, in his view, the Beijing avian influenza (AI) conference had been a failure because Indonesia alone needs at least USD 950 million to deal with AI, but would likely only receive U [...]
2006-02-13 02:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR PGOV SOCI KFLU ID
06JAKARTA2030CARTOONS CAST SHADOW OVER REGIONAL INTER-FAITH MEET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia hosted religious leaders representing 10 religious faiths from 17 East Asian nations to an inter-faith conference February 12-13. While the gathering produced a helpful declaration that included calls for greater inter-religious tolerance and understanding to deter ex [...]
2006-02-15 09:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL ID
06JAKARTA2031SEEKING SUPPORT FOR FINAL IRAQ ELECTION RESULTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-15 09:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OPRC ID IZ
06JAKARTA2032INDONESIA: SBY USES INVESTITURE OF NEW TNI CHIEF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono February 13 swore in Chief Air Marshal Djoko Suyanto as the new commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to replace General Endriartono Sutarto. Air Marshal Suyanto, the first Air Force Officer to hold the position, will assume command of [...]
2006-02-15 12:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2107INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON PALESTINIAN
[...] (SBU) We delivered and discussed reftel points February 15 with Wahib, DFA Deputy Director for Middle Eastern Affairs. Wahib replied that the GOI is cautiously optimistic that Hamas will behave differently as a ruling coalition partner than it behaved as an opposition group. He said the GOI [...]
2006-02-16 09:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA2110INDONESIA: POLAND PLANS DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL
[...] (C) Polish Ambassador Tomasz Lukaszuk previewed with the Ambassador February 16 the upcoming visit to Jakarta of Polish Minister of National Defense Radoslaw Sikorski. Lukaszuk noted that NATO Ambassadors in Jakarta had agreed in 2000 to cooperate on defense matters and inform counterparts of [...]
2006-02-16 11:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2112INDONESIA-ET TRUTH/FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION FACES
[...] (C) Indonesia's senior bureaucrat responsible for human rights in a February 8 meeting described the Indonesia-East Timor Commission on Truth and Friendship (CTF) as "stagnant," due to East Timor's presentation of its human rights report to the UN, the shooting of three Indonesians on the East [...]
2006-02-16 11:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
06JAKARTA2314UNHCR TO ASSIST CUBAN CITIZEN HELD IN WEST TIMOR
[...] (SBU) UNHCR/Jakarta informed us February 21 that it plans to assist Ramon Ballesteros Escobar, a Cuban citizen, with refugee assistance after he illegally crossed into Indonesia from East Timor earlier this month. Immigration authorities are holding Escobar at an Immigration detention facilit [...]
2006-02-21 10:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF KJUS CU ID
06JAKARTA2316INDONESIAN OUTBRIEF ON KOREAN MEDIATION MISSION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Special Envoy Amb. Nana Sutresna briefed representatives of the nations participating in the Six Party talks on his travels to Pyongyang and Seoul earlier in the month. Sutresna, following the instructions of President Yudhoyono (SBY) urged the North Koreans to resume [...]
2006-02-21 11:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNUC MARR KN KS ID
06JAKARTA2392SBY'S ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM DEALT A SETBACK
[...] (C) Summary. In a verdict that took many observers by surprise, Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Court acquitted three former Bank Mandiri officials of corruption charges on February 20. The Attorney General reportedly stated that he wants to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, and President Su [...]
2006-02-22 11:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCOR PGOV EINV ID
06JAKARTA240INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - DECEMBER
[...] Summary. Indonesian financial markets reacted favorably to a December 6, 2005 cabinet reshuffle, with the rupiah gaining two percent through the end of December to close at 9,840/USD. The Jakarta Stock Exchange composite index also rose six percent after the reshuffle to close at 1,162 on Dec [...]
2006-01-06 08:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD ENRG SENV TBIO MARR ID
06JAKARTA2403INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 21 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-23 06:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA2476INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR AL-ASKARIYA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-23 08:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ID IZ
06JAKARTA2483INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) We conveyed and discussed ref A points February 23 with Wahib, Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Director for Middle Eastern Affairs, and emphasized our preference that the GOI not receive Hamas delegations. Wahib replied that the GOI had not extended a visit invitatio [...]
2006-02-23 08:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ID
06JAKARTA2490CODEL KOLBE CALLS ON PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO
[...] (C) On February 21, President Yudhoyono presented the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) delegation headed by Representative Jim Kolbe with a lengthy description of his priorities including reform, continued democratization, increased economic prosperity, Aceh and Papua. He raised [...]
2006-02-23 12:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KISL MARR OVIP ID IR
06JAKARTA2492FREEPORT PAPUA MINE CLOSED BY ILLEGAL MINERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Approximately 400 illegal miners in Papua launched a picket of Freeport-McMoRan,s Grasberg Mine on February 21, forcing its temporary closure for the past 48 hours. As of COB February 23, the mine remained closed. In a separate but perhaps related incident, at approximately 04 [...]
2006-02-23 23:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN ENIV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2514SENATOR FEINGOLD MEETS INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND
[...] (SBU) Senator Russ Feingold met February 23 with Indonesian human rights and judicial reform NGOs, and expressed strong support for the promotion of human rights in Indonesia and justice for past abuses. Human rights advocates expressed disappointment at lack of progress in accountability fo [...]
2006-02-24 08:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS ID
06JAKARTA2515CODEL KOLBE AND HDAC ENGAGE INDONESIAN LEGISLATORS
[...] CODEL Kolbe met on February 21-22 with top legislators from the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) in the first overseas visit of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). Indonesian legislators welcomed the CODEL,s expertise on legislative affairs and its encouragement for the [...]
2006-02-24 08:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID
06JAKARTA252TERRORIST FINANCE: ENGAGING TEH GOI FURTHER ON TF
[...] (S) As requested reftel, Embassy Jakarta proposes the following talking points for an initial approach to the Government of Indonesia (GOI) on securing better implementation of Indonesia's exiting UNSCR 1267 obligations. We recommend the same approach this time as in the past, i.e., a separa [...]
2006-01-06 10:30:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL AS ID
06JAKARTA2527TERRORIST FINANCE: ENGAGING TEH GOI ON TF ADN
[...] (S) Summary: Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials raised concerns about the effect of additional UN 1267 designations of Indonesia's on the country's international reputation. Generally speaking, though, they did not voice specific initial opposition to a U.S. and Australian plan to move [...]
2006-02-24 09:58:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN ETTC PREL AS ID
06JAKARTA2528REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF INVITATIONAL TRAVEL FOR
[...] REQUEST PERMISSION FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE TO ACCEPT AN INVITATIONAL TRAVEL GIFT FUNDED BY THE US-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING IN BANGKOK, THAILAND, MARCH 6-8, 2006. THE ANNUAL MEETING CONSISTS OF A DINNER ON MARCH 6 AND A SERIES OF PANEL DI [...]
2006-02-24 10:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA ID
06JAKARTA2529REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006 TO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO BANGKOK FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM MEETINGS AT AMERICAN EMBASSY BANGKOK (MARCH 6) AND THE PARTICIPATION IN THE ANNUAL US-ASEAN BOARD MEETING (MARCH [...]
2006-02-24 10:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA2530CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS INDONESIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Senator Russell Feingold called on Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rachman Saleh on February 22. The Senator opened with questions regarding the status of the Timika case and received assurance that the Attorney General's Office will follow the evidence and expects to convict those cu [...]
2006-02-24 10:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV KJUS OREP ASEC ID
06JAKARTA2531INDONESIA: 2006 SPECIAL 301 SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Local IPR industry representatives now tell us that the IPR enforcement landscape has changed considerably since they made their Special 310 out-of-cycle review (OCR) submissions in December 2005. They now see a more credible and sustained enforcement effort backed up by sign [...]
2006-02-24 10:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2532SENATOR FEINGOLD'S FEBRUARY 23 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Introduction and Summary. In a February 23 meeting with Senator Russell Feingold, Indonesian Foreign Minister Wirajuda expressed optimism that Indonesia's historic experience with Islamic fundamentalism would eventually lead to success in stemming the current threat posed by Muslim extrem [...]
2006-02-24 11:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL OREP PTER PGOV KAWC KNNP IR TT ID
06JAKARTA2564IMPLEMENTING INDONESIA'S BROADCASTING LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-26 23:54:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOIIP OPRC KPAO ID
06JAKARTA2744ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon February 23 discussed with Indonesian Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono difficulties budget shortfalls caused for TNI's ability to respond to "natural and man-made disasters" and the GOI's procurement focus on transportation assets, which could [...]
2006-03-02 07:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2819ADMIRAL FALLON CALLS ON PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO
[...] (C) PACOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon called on President Yudhoyono (SBY) Feb. 23. SBY emphasized the importance of bilateral cooperation in multiple areas. He spoke of the progress in implementing peace in Aceh, and judged that in his view the situation will be fully settled within [...]
2006-03-02 13:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER KN BM ID MASS PGOV
06JAKARTA2820ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH MINISTER WIDODO
[...] (C) Summary. Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral William J. Fallon, met with Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Widodo A.S. on February 23. He emphasized the importance to the United States of restored mil-mil relations with Indonesia. Both le [...]
2006-03-03 02:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ID
06JAKARTA2848BA'ASYIR REVIEW MOVES FORWARD WITH AMROZI TESTIMONY
[...] (C) Convicted Bali bomber Amrozi testified on behalf of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Emir Abu Bakar Ba'asyir in the months-old Judicial Review request process (ref A). However, the results of his testimony have yet to reach the South Jakarta District Court, which scheduled its next session for March [...]
2006-03-03 10:14:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA2849INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, MARCH 2005 TO MARCH 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-03 11:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID ELAB KFRD KJUS KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06JAKARTA2914INDONESIA: ADMIRAL FALLON'S MEETING WITH NEW TNI
[...] (C) Summary: Air Chief Marshall Djoko Suyanto was upbeat in his assessment of U.S.-Indonesian military-to-military relations with PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon February 23. Suyanto described the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) internal reforms as &ongoing8 but cautioned that changing TNI,s cul [...]
2006-03-06 10:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA2915INDONESIA - MARCH 2 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Jakarta city government carried out 24-26 February a series of actions to control Avian Influenza (AI) in birds, including door-to-door inspections, limited culling and vaccinations. Human and animal health officials in West Kalimantan told us that they are doing what they [...]
2006-03-06 11:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA2917YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: MOVING OUR RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your March 14-15 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) Su [...]
2006-03-06 13:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA2984INDONESIA - GOVERNMENT OUTLINES INFRASTRUCTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono and other Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials outlined a wide ranging infrastructure development plan at a February 21 conference for potential foreign investors in Jakarta. Boediono and other GOI speakers described an am [...]
2006-03-07 10:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ENRG EAIR ELTN ECPS ID
06JAKARTA2985TIMIKA CASE NEARING PROSECUTION PHASE
[...] (C) Summary. During their February 27 - March 7 deployment to Jakarta, the FBI team investigating the August 2002 murders of two American citizens near Timika, Papua, assisted by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors, supported their Indonesian counterparts in the final stages of preparing the [...]
2006-03-07 10:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC KJUS CASC PHUM ID
06JAKARTA3159CONTROVERSIAL PORNOGRAPHY BILL POISED TO TARGET
[...] (U) Indonesian political interest groups portray the ongoing legislative debate over a pornography law as a struggle for the nation's soul. Some fear that Islamists see the bill as a way to impose a strict "Arabic" ethos while conservatives believe the time as nigh to take a stand against mor [...]
2006-03-09 11:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM KWMN ID
06JAKARTA3161 NORTH SUMATRA GOVERNOR NAMED DESPITE ALLEGATIONS
[...] (SBU) North Sumatra Deputy Governor Rudolf Pardede will become Acting Governor of North Sumatra on March 10, months after former Governor Rizul Nurdin's unfortunate death. The announcement of his appointment came after several weeks of increased activity in the investigation of Pardede's alleg [...]
2006-03-10 00:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA3162INDONESIA - GOI FINALLY PURGES PERTAMINA BOARD
[...] (SBU) On March 8 the Government of Indonesia (GOI) replaced the head of state oil and gas company Pertamina after more than a year of unfulfilled promises to shake up Indonesia's most powerful state-owned enterprise. Ari Sumarno succeeds Megawati-era appointee Widya Purnama as President Dire [...]
2006-03-10 00:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV PREL PINR ID
06JAKARTA3173INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON MEETINGS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-10 06:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA3199INDONESIA - MARCH 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. A USAID Washington avian influenza (AI) team met with a range of stakeholders during a March 1-5 visit to Indonesia, including the Ambassador and the Embassy's Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG),to discuss USAID's USD 11 million FY 2006 AI allocation for Indonesia. Officials [...]
2006-03-10 11:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA3241 TERRORIST FINANCE: JI-4 PRENOTIFICATION
[...] (S) As requested in ref Ref a, on March 13 we notified Department of Foreign Affairs Directorate of International Security and Disarmament Officer Aris Munandar that, o/a March 30, the U.S. and Australia plan to submit the names of the JI-4 to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee for inclusion on [...]
2006-03-13 08:29:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN PTER PREL ETTC ID
06JAKARTA3244ISLAMIC BANKING GROWING IN INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesia's Islamic banking sector is small (under two percent of banking sector assets) but growing rapidly, and could reach nine percent by 2011, according to Bank Indonesia (BI) officials. BI regulates sharia banking and is encouraging the growth of the sector with a lower i [...]
2006-03-13 09:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA3246SUEBU, ATURURI LIKELY WINNERS IN CONTROVERSIAL
[...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results indicate that Barnabas "Bas" Suebu and Alex Hesegem were elected as governor and vice governor of Papua province on Friday, March 10. On the following day, incumbent Abraham Atururi and Rahimin Katjong won in neighboring West Irian Jaya province, prevailing ov [...]
2006-03-13 12:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS ID
06JAKARTA3291COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TSA ARMEN SAHAGIAN
[...] Embassy Jakarta welcomes and grants country clearance for Transportation Security Adminsitraiton (TSA) representative, Mr. Armen A. Sahagian to travel to Bali from 15-16 March, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to: (a) continue dialogue between the TSA and Ministry of Communications (office [...]
2006-03-14 09:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA EAIR ID
06JAKARTA3296IPR Update: Police Enforcement Campaign Continues
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Local Motion Picture Association (MPA) representative told us on March 14 that Indonesian police raided their third optical disc (OD) factory in 2006 on March 13 and sealed 12 production lines used to produce pirated ODs. The factory apparently had been in the process of reg [...]
2006-03-14 11:52:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD WTO ID
06JAKARTA3298SUPREME COURT ORDERS EX-MILITIA LEADER TO JAIL FOR
[...] (SBU) Indonesia's Supreme Court on March 13 upheld the conviction of former East Timor militia leader Eurico Guterres and reinstated his ten-year prison sentence. Prosecutors said they would immediately jail Guterres, who has remained free pending his appeal. The politically well-connected G [...]
2006-03-15 03:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
06JAKARTA3314INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2006
[...] Summary: The Rhino Conservation Program and the GOI co- hosted an "Indonesian Rhino Conservation Strategy Meeting" on February 26-27 to discuss strategies for conserving the Sumatran and Javan rhinos. The National Agency for Drug and Food Control's (BPOM) December 2005 discovery of formaldah [...]
2006-03-15 06:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO EIND ID
06JAKARTA3344A/S HILL'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono March 3 described to EAP Assistant Secretary Chris Hill his plans to press the Burmese junta to reform. During his visit to Rangoon March 2, the President said he had urged General Than Shwe to make progress on the national constitution, national [...]
2006-03-15 09:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA3347UNHCR CONFIDENT CUBAN CITIZEN TREATED FAIRLY
[...] (C) UNHCR/Jakarta told us on March 13 that it remains confident that Ramon Ballesteros Escobar, a Cuban doctor who fled from his assignment in East Timor, will be treated fairly (reftel). Shinji Kubo, head of Protective Services at UNCHR in Jakarta said that no one, including the Indonesian [...]
2006-03-16 01:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREF KJUS CU ID
06JAKARTA3405ADMIRAL FALLON AND SENATOR FEINGOLD DISCUSS
[...] (U) Commander Pacific Command (PACOM) Admiral William J. Fallon and Senator Russell Feingold met on February 25 in Medan with representatives of Indonesian military and police to discuss security in the Straits of Malacca. The Admiral underscored USG interest in maintaining a safe and secure [...]
2006-03-17 00:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ASEC EWWT PINR PREL SI MY TH ID
06JAKARTA3430INDONESIA - MARCH 16 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Local joint venture PT IPB Shigeta has launched an AI vaccine for poultry called CLOSE 5.1 using reverse genetic engineering. The firm plans to initially produce 180 million doses a year and distribute them throughout Asia. The Governor of East Java told the press on March 14 [...]
2006-03-17 07:38:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA3479REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006 TO SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE OFFICIAL TRAVEL TO SINGAPORE FOR THE CHIEF OF MISSION MEETING WITH DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF (MARCH 29-30) FOLLOWED BY ONE DAY OF PERSONAL LEAVE. PROPOSED SCHEDULE F [...]
2006-03-17 09:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA3482CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS TNI COMMANDER DJOKO SUYANTO
[...] (C) Senator Feingold called on Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander (Panglima) Air Chief Marshal Djoko Suyanto February 24. The Panglima reviewed structural reforms that the military has undertaken over the past several years and affirmed civilian control over the institution. The Panglima [...]
2006-03-17 11:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KJUS OREP ASEC ID
06JAKARTA3483INDONESIA: CODEL FEINGOLD'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Defense Minister told visiting Senator Russell Feingold that progress in the counterterrorism fight by Indonesian law enforcement authorities had disrupted terrorist groups in the country. Terror groups had financial difficulties, were less able to mount attacks and [...]
2006-03-17 12:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA3490SBY'S ANTI CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) anti-corruption campaign, the most significant since Indonesia's independence, has made progress in recent months with a slew of high-profile investigations and prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials [...]
2006-03-20 00:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA3560SENATOR FEINGOLD'S MEETING WITH ASEAN SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) In a wide-ranging discussion on February 23, ASEAN General Secretary Ong Keng Yong outlined ASEAN's priorities and challenges for U.S. Senator Russell Feingold. He praised the U.S.-ASEAN Enhanced Partnership, noting that it reaffirms a critical relationship sometimes taken for granted in [...]
2006-03-20 08:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALASEAN OREP PREL PGOV AORC CH BM ID
06JAKARTA3563INDONESIA - GOI UNVEILS INVESTMENT CLIMATE PACKAGE
[...] (U) Summary: Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono and Trade Minister Mari Pangestu outlined the GOI's February 27 investment climate policy package at a March 10 meeting of the Consultative Group on Indonesia's (CGI) Investment Climate Working Group (ICWG). ICWG members welcom [...]
2006-03-20 09:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON EFIN ID
06JAKARTA3680TIP UPDATE: POLICE RAIDS FREE CHILD PROSTITUTES
[...] (SBU) The new head of Indonesia's national police anti-trafficking unit (Unit III) has targeted removal of children from prostitution as his first operational priority. Unit III's chief reports that police units in Surabaya, Batam and Jakarta have freed some 37 child victims in these locatio [...]
2006-03-21 08:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL EAID KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA3688TRAINING MOBILE BRIGADE PERSONNEL WOULD IMPROVE
[...] (C) The deaths of 3 "Mobile Brigade" (Brimob) policemen in Jayapura, Papua on March 16 highlight a major deficiency in our approach to police training in Indonesia. The 2003 ban on the training of Brimob personnel by ICITAP (ref A) prevents us from aiding the unit most in need of assistance [...]
2006-03-21 11:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA3690FREEPORT SEES LOOSE-KNIT GROUP BEHIND PAPUA
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Calm returned to the Indonesian province of Papua over the March 18-19 weekend following the deaths of four security officials during a March 16 rampage by anti-mining protestors. A disparate group of political and economic actors with varied agendas use anti-Freeport sentime [...]
2006-03-22 00:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EMIN ENIV PGOV ASEC ID
06JAKARTA3843IPR Update: Police Raids Continue
[...] (SBU) Summary: Metropolitan Jakarta police conducted more than 200 raids on optical disc vendors in February 2006, arresting 145 individuals and seizing large quantities of pirated optical disks. While Jakarta police have not detained most small street vendors very long, 18 individuals remai [...]
2006-03-23 11:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD WTO ID
06JAKARTA3849NEWMONT BELIEVES JAKARTA-BASED GROUPS BEHIND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jakarta-based environmental non-governmental organizations initiated the protests that ended in the destruction of Newmont Mining Company,s exploration camp at Elang on the island of Sumbawa on March 19, according to Newmont executives. As a result of the attack by approximate [...]
2006-03-24 00:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN EINV PGOV ASEC ID
06JAKARTA3892EAST JAVA POLICE CONFERENCE ON IPR LAWS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several branches of the GOI and East Java government cosponsored an IPR seminar on March 4 to educate East Java area police chiefs on the importance of IPR to Indonesia and its economy. Senior GOI and provincial officials used persuasive arguments and data to try and motivate [...]
2006-03-24 08:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA3896INDONESIA - MARCH 22 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Yudhoyono signed a Presidential Regulation on March 13 establishing a "National Committee on Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Preparedness." The decree designates the Coordinating Minster for Peoples' Welfare as the "National Coordinator" for AI policy and activi [...]
2006-03-24 11:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA3897INDONESIA: 2006 IPR PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] Summary: The tide is turning in a favorable direction on IPR enforcement in Indonesia. A year ago, the IP industry, which was oddly cutting resources here, had marked Indonesia as the next hub for regional piracy and counterfeit syndicates. However, contrary to such expectations, over the [...]
2006-03-24 11:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD ID
06JAKARTA3898MEETINGS WITH EAST KALIMANTAN SECURITY OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary. Our March 1-5 visit to East Kalimantan province found security officials aware of the terrorist transit threat along the Sabah border, but meager resources prevented officials from implementing effective security measures. Lack of GOI investment in securing this area -- despite [...]
2006-03-24 15:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC ID
06JAKARTA4035INDONESIA: MORE ABEPURA AFTERMATH
[...] (C) Summary. While Papuan provincial authorities deal with the aftermath of the March 16 Abepura riot, senior GOI figures hint that foreign interests and Jakarta politicians had a hand in the disturbance. An important group of Papuan political and religious leaders wrote President Yudhoyono [...]
2006-03-27 11:08:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CASC ASEC ID
06JAKARTA4040INDONESIANS USING A-3 VISAS TO SMUGGLE IMMIGRANTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 27, 2006 SUBJECT NANANG ZULKIFLI AKA ANWAR APPLIED FOR A US A-3 VISA. SUBJECT PROVIDED AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, A REFERENCE LETTER FROM THE EMBASSY OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, A NEWLY ISSUED INDONESIAN PASSPORT (ISSUED FEB 20, 2006),AND IDENTIFICATION ID (KTP). FINGERPRINT I [...]
2006-03-28 03:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS KFRD KCRM SOCI ID
06JAKARTA4136A/S HILL DISCUSSES REFORM WITH FINANCE MINISTER AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani told Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill on March 3 that people are expecting more results from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) Administration in its second year, particularly in making the bureaucracy more responsible and efficient. [...]
2006-03-29 04:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN PGOV ID
06JAKARTA4364AMCIT RECEIVES FIVE MONTH SENTENCE FOR VISA VIOLATION; INDONESIAN GETS 30 MONTHS FOR BLASPHEMY
[...] (U) Summary: On March 29, the court in Sampang, Madura found U.S. citizen David Ray guilty of violating his student visa and sentenced him to five months in prison. Counting time served, Ray likely will go free the week of April 14, barring a prosecution appeal. The court found Ray's collea [...]
2006-04-04 09:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PHUM PGOV KIRF ID DAVID WILLIAM RAY
06JAKARTA4365CENTRAL SULAWESI: "POSO 3" CLEMENCY APPEAL REJECTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The executions of the so-called "Poso 3"-- Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Martinus Riwu--in Central Sulawesi following their 2001 convictions for mass murder, torture and arson, could take place next week. "Procedural" reasons delayed the executions from their planned Apr [...]
2006-04-04 09:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINS PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4407VOTE COUNTS FINAL IN PAPUAN GUBERNATORIAL RACES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Provincial Election Commissions of Papua and West Irian Jaya have announced final vote tabulations in direct elections for governor held on March 10 and March 11 respectively. On March 22, the Electoral Commission of West Irian Jaya certified incumbent Bram Atururi as the v [...]
2006-04-05 07:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS KDEM ID
06JAKARTA4413INDONESIAN POLICE DESTROY 1.6 MILLION BOOTLEG DISCS
[...] The Jakarta Metro police destroyed a significant quantity of drugs, pornography, and bootleg CDs, VCDs, and DVDs at a contraband destruction ceremony on April 5. During the ceremony, the police incinerated more than 750 kilograms of narcotics and 110,000 ecstasy tablets, and burned a large pi [...]
2006-04-05 23:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PGOV ID
06JAKARTA4464AUSTRALIAN ASYLUM GRANT TO PAPUANS SPARKS SHARP
[...] (C) Summary: The Australian Government's March 23 decision to grant three-year "protection visas" to 42 Indonesian nationals from troubled Papua province has provoked condemnation from the GOI and the Indonesian public. The GOI recalled its ambassador from Canberra, postponed a bilateral [...]
2006-04-06 10:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM AS ID
06JAKARTA4465GROWING WORKER PROTESTS AGAINST CHANGES IN LABOR
[...] (SBU) Indonesia experienced its largest labor protest in at least four years, as Indonesian workers took to the streets of Jakarta and other major cities on April 5 to oppose the GOI's plan to amend the basic labor law. The proposed amendments would scale back 2003 concessions to workers and [...]
2006-04-06 10:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4466INDONESIA CONSIDERING DARFUR PKO ISSUES
[...] (C) We delivered on April 4 the points contained reftel to the Director for International Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, Hassan Kleib, to urge Indonesian support for re-hatting as a UN PKO the African Union Mission in Sudan. We also pressed [...]
2006-04-06 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL KPKO ID SU
06JAKARTA4467INDONESIA - FEBRUARY 21 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-06 11:08:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA4510INDONESIA - APRIL 6 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Congen Surabaya officers met with provincial and municipal animal husbandry officials on March 16 to review vaccination and culling procedures after the first reported avian influenza (AI) outbreak in Surabaya. Grobogan Regency officials in Central Java told Congen that recent n [...]
2006-04-07 09:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA4511ConGen Meets with Solo Leaders
[...] (C) Summary: ConGen Surabaya Principal Officer Pierangelo and Econ/PolOff Williams traveled to the Central Java city of Solo (also known as Surakarta) on Wednesday April 5, meeting with Mayor Joko Widodo, Solo Chief of Police Yotje Mende, and with Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta (UMS) re [...]
2006-04-07 09:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV KISL ID
06JAKARTA4514INDONESIA - TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS -
[...] Summary: On March 2, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) announced an "Investment Climate Improvement Package" mapping out reforms to a number of laws, regulations, and procedures affecting the investment climate. The Ministry of Trade (MOT) met the first key deadline in the package by submit [...]
2006-04-07 10:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
06JAKARTA4515AFTER ELECTIONS, PAPUAN LEADERS FOCUS ON FREEPORT
[...] (C) Summary: Following the March 10 and 11 elections in Papua and West Irian Jaya provinces, Papuan leaders have opted against staging a confrontation with the Indonesian central government, at least for the time being. Instead, in the wake of anti-Freeport demonstrations in Jayapura and els [...]
2006-04-07 11:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EINV EMIN ID
06JAKARTA4519INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-11 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4520INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] (SBU) Summary. A slew of high-profile corruption prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials over the past year has energized the media and civil society groups and placed newfound and largely positive pressure on the bureaucracy (Reftel). Permanently reducing t [...]
2006-04-11 00:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4755INDONESIA PREVIEWS BALI ASEAN MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Summary. On April 13, we urged Indonesia, together with its ASEAN partners, to press Burma on human rights and democratization at the upcoming ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat in Bali. We urged further that ASEAN make its concerns on these issues public, as it did at its Kuala Lumpur su [...]
2006-04-13 10:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEAN PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA4756INDONESIA ENTHUSIASTIC ON U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS PLEDGE
[...] (U) On April 11, we conveyed the Secretary's letter on our pledge for the Human Rights Council (reftel a) to Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda under cover of a diplomatic note. 2. (SBU) On April 13, we followed up with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at [...]
2006-04-13 11:02:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM PREL UNGA ID
06JAKARTA4757MUNIR CASE: AMBASSADOR SIGNALS CONTINUED U.S.
[...] (S) In an April 11 meeting intended to signal continued U.S. concern over the Munir case, Suciwati, the widow of the murdered human rights campaigner, told the Ambassador of her plan to visit Washington in late April as part of a schedule organized by U.S. human rights groups. The visit would [...]
2006-04-13 12:14:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4811GAM REINTEGRATION SLOW, ECONOMY AND POLITICS NOT
[...] (SBU) On April 10 former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) activists hosted a prayer meeting (Doa Bersama) in Tiro, Aceh, to mark Mohammed's Birthday, attracting over 1000 Acehnese from throughout the province. At the meeting, Conoff had numerous discussions about the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) [...]
2006-04-18 01:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EAID ASEC KDEM ID
06JAKARTA4964INDONESIA: TAX REFORM MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told donors on April 19 that President Yudhoyono would sign a decree very soon appointing two prominent Indonesians, Ma'rie Muhammad and Marsilam Simanjuntak, to help steer the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) tax and customs reform efforts. Bo [...]
2006-04-19 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PINR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA4965SEMI-UNHINGED PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR ALLEGES ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ordered by the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to leave his post after 14 years, Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Ribhi Awad is not going quietly and his ravings are providing mirth for the diplomatic corps and a protocol headache for the Indonesian government. In antics [...]
2006-04-19 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA4966 DECREE ENDS IN COMPROMISE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-19 11:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS KIRF KISL ID
06JAKARTA4967SEMI-UNHINGED PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR ALLEGES ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ordered by the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to leave his post after 14 years, Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Ribhi Awad is not going quietly and his ravings are providing mirth for the diplomatic corps and a protocol headache for the Indonesian government. In antics [...]
2006-04-19 12:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA4972DECREE ENDS IN COMPROMISE
[...] (U) On March 23, the Home Affairs and Religious Affairs ministries announced a revised joint ministerial decree on building houses of worship (ref a). Whereas the original decree required an undefined "community approval", the revised decree requires 90 congregation members and 60 supporters [...]
2006-04-20 06:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KIRF KJUS KISL ID
06JAKARTA5039NU CHAIRMAN MUZADI NERVOUS ABOUT GROWTH OF ISLAMIC
[...] (C) Summary: Hasyim Muzadi, Chairman of Indonesia's largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),told the Ambassador April 19 of his concern over the growth of "hard-line Islam" in Indonesia and throughout the Muslim world. Muzadi expressed doubts about the GOI's will to arrest this d [...]
2006-04-20 10:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KISL ID
06JAKARTA5040PROSECUTORS UNFAZED BY AMROZI'S TESTIMONY FOR
[...] (S) Convicted Bali bomber Amrozi appeared in the Cilacap District Court on April 19 to testify on behalf of Jemaah Islamiyah Emir Abu Bakar Ba'asyir in the months-old Judicial Review request process. With hundreds of Ba'asyir supporters in tow, Amrozi repeated his previously submitted testimon [...]
2006-04-20 11:01:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA5141IPR RAIDS RISKY BUSINESS FOR JAKARTA POLICE
[...] (C) Summary: The Jakarta Police,s Special Crimes Unit (SCU) has made significant efforts to implement Indonesia Police Chief Sutanto,s December 26, 2005 instruction for all district police chiefs to step up IPR and optical disk piracy enforcement. The SCU has conducted raids on dozens of pir [...]
2006-04-24 10:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKIPR ETRD WTO ID
06JAKARTA5217SBY OPPONENTS WAVE ECONOMIC NATIONALISM FLAG
[...] (C) Summary: Former People's Consultative Assembly Chairman Amien Rais and retired General Wiranto continue to wave the flag of economic nationalism in hopes of strengthening their likely presidential bids in 2009 and stirring up trouble for President Yudhoyono in the meantime. In their latest [...]
2006-04-26 07:27:00Embassy JakartaSECRETECON EMIN ENIV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5237NO SURPRISES AT UBUD ASEAN MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Summary. Based on readouts from Indonesian Foreign Ministry and Jakarta-based diplomatic contacts, the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat held in Ubud, Bali on April 19 - 20 seems to have been a routine affair. Some ministers expressed disappointment with Burma, but it was hardly a full-c [...]
2006-04-26 11:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEAN PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA5242INDONESIA POSITION ON FRENCH "SOLIDARITY TAX"
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) does not support the French proposal for an internationally- endorsed "solidarity tax" on air travel for development funding (Reftel),nor does the GOI levy airline ticket taxes for any other non-aviation purpose, according an official at the M [...]
2006-04-27 00:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EAIR AFIN APEC ID
06JAKARTA5308INDONESIA - APRIL 27 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-27 07:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA5420TAX, CUSTOMS CHIEFS REPLACED IN REFORM EFFORT
[...] (C) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) replaced the long-serving, corrupt, and powerful Directors General of Taxation and Customs on April 21. The decision shows SBY's strong support for Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati's efforts to reform the Ministry of Finance (MOF) b [...]
2006-04-29 02:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PINR KCOR KMCA PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5483MOUNT MERAPI ERUPTION PREPAREDNESS
[...] Summary. Embassy held a meeting on May 1 to discuss preparedness for a possible eruption of Mount Merapi Volcano, 27 kilometers from the city of Yogyakarta in central Java. The volcano went on level 3 orange alert (ready to erupt) on April 12 and could threaten 200,000 people in the hazard z [...]
2006-05-01 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC SENV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5484BURMESE REFUGEES PUT GOI IN TOUGH SPOT
[...] (SBU) A boatload of 77 Burmese men landed April 25 on an island off the coast of Aceh on their way to Malaysia. The Indonesian Navy found the Burmese after a storm blew their boat off course. The government of Indonesian (GOI) is in a tight spot as they weigh the political sensitivities in [...]
2006-05-01 11:12:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV KJUS CVIS ID BM
06JAKARTA5485INDONESIAN POLICE KILL, CAPTURE TERRORISTS, BUT
[...] (C) On April 29, Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed two terrorists and captured a third in a pre-dawn raid in Central Java in their continuing hunt for terrorist mastermind and recruiter Noordin M. Top. The manhunt then led to the arrest of a second terrorist suspect and the discovery of [...]
2006-05-01 11:45:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA5486UNIONS USE MAY DAY TO CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST
[...] (SBU) Indonesian unions used May Day to continue their street protests in Jakarta and other major cities against earlier government plans to amend the 2003 Manpower Act to improve the investment climate. United firmly against any revisions to the law, labor leaders turned out 30,000 or more [...]
2006-05-01 11:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA5551DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) We met May 2 with with Jonny Sinaga, Deputy Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to deliver demarches contained reftels on our opposition to Iran's candidacy for the UN Council on Human Rights. Drawing on talking points [...]
2006-05-03 01:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM PREL UNHRC IR ID
06JAKARTA5580UNIONS BESIEGE PARLIAMENT (AGAIN),PROTEST TURNS
[...] (SBU) Tens of thousands of union-led demonstrators besieged the gates of the Indonesian Parliament (DPR) on March 3 to force Parliament to agree to refuse any amendment to the Manpower Act. The demonstration, with an estimated turnout of 50,000, turned tense in the afternoon as labor leaders [...]
2006-05-03 11:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA5581DOC DEPUTY SECRETARY SAMPSON'S APRIL 27-28 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Vice President Jusuf Kalla told visiting Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary David A. Sampson on April 27 that under Indonesia's new openness, small interest groups are capable of sensationalizing issues and causing significant damage to Indonesia's reputation and investmen [...]
2006-05-03 23:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EINV ETRD ECON PGOV KCOR ID
06JAKARTA5582DOC DEPUTY SECRETARY SAMPSON'S APRIL 27-28 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. During his April 27-28 visit to Jakarta, Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary David A. Sampson discussed Indonesia's economic reform efforts and U.S. interests in Indonesia and region with business leaders, academics and opinion leaders. American Chamber of Commerce (Amcha [...]
2006-05-03 23:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EINV ETRD ECON PGOV KCOR ID
06JAKARTA5642JAKARTA WATCHING EAST TIMOR UNREST
[...] (C) On May 4, DCM was called by his Australian and Singaporean counterparts who expressed concern about ongoing unrest in East Timor (reftels). The Australians' analysis of the situation seemed to track with the information Embasy Dili has provided. Australian DCM said that the GOA had alrea [...]
2006-05-04 11:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AS SN TT ID
06JAKARTA5700INDONESIA - TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS -
[...] Summary: Indonesia's 2006 first quarter exports increased 12.5 percent year-on-year (YoY) to USD 22.4 billion, while imports dipped slightly. Electrical tools, coal, and rubber and rubber products led all exports. Indonesia and Japan held a fourth round of bilateral Economic Partnership Ag [...]
2006-05-05 10:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
06JAKARTA5701May 4 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE (AI): VISIT OF AI
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Department of State's Special Representative for Avian and Pandemic Influenza Ambassador John Lange met with senior Indonesian officials, including Coordinating Minister for Peoples' Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, on May 1 to discuss U.S. efforts to address the AI pandemic threat [...]
2006-05-05 10:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA5703IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S ENGAGEMENT WITH INDONESIAN
[...] (C) House of Representatives Chairman Agung Laksono plans to engage in a friendly manner with Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad during Ahmadi-Nejad's upcoming visit, according to one of Agung's closest associates. Agung's positive view of the Iranians appears to stem at least in part from his pe [...]
2006-05-05 11:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP ENRG EMIN IR ID
06JAKARTA5704GOI, UNIONS ASSIGN BLAME FOR MAY 3 VIOLENCE
[...] (S) Jakarta is awash in speculation as to the possibility or extent of political manipulation behind the massive May 3 labor demonstrations that turned violent at the Parliament's gates (ref A). In the course of expressing his concern over the violence, President Yudhoyono publicly called on [...]
2006-05-05 12:24:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPGOV PHUM ELAB ID
06JAKARTA5705IRANIAM PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD'S MAY 10 - 13 VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. Prior to participating in the D-8 Summit in Bali on May 12 - 13, Iranian President Ahmadinejad will be hosted to a state visit in Jakarta, including meetings with President Yudhoyono and Foreign Minister Wirajuda as well as meetings with parliamentarians and appearances at univer [...]
2006-05-05 13:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP KISL AORC IR ID
06JAKARTA5772FORCED CHURCH CLOSINGS CONTINUE IN WEST JAVA
[...] (SBU) Local Muslim communities, assisted by militant outfits, have forcibly closed 13 small unlicensed churches despite the government of Indonesia's newly promulgated revised decree on the establishment of houses of worship on March 23 (ref E). The new decree legally protects existing unlice [...]
2006-05-08 09:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF KJUS KISL ID
06JAKARTA5778TERRORISM FINANCE: MA'ARIF EDUCATION FOUNDATION
[...] (S) The Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) education office tells us that the Sidoarjo-based Yayasan Pendidikan Ma'arif (the Ma'arif Educational Foundation) has no links to the al Ma'arif Education Foundation in the Philippines (reftel). "Ma'arif" means "learning" or "knowledge" in Arabic, and thousands of [...]
2006-05-08 10:27:00Embassy JakartaSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL ID
06JAKARTA5779IRAN: AMBASSADOR DEMARCHES INDONESIAN FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador urged Indonesian Foreign Minister Wirajuda to press Iran on its nuclear weapons development program during President Ahmadi-Nejad's state visit to Jakarta May 10-11 and during the D-8 Summit in Bali May 12-13, and to use extreme caution in making public statements on t [...]
2006-05-08 10:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KUNR KNNP UNHRC IR ID
06JAKARTA5789ASD RODMAN'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman met Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan on April 12. Both expressed strong interest in expanding military ties. Imron pressed for USG training for Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus); [...]
2006-05-09 06:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS MARR PHUM KDEM KAWC TT BM TW
06JAKARTA5851INDONESIAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP, Q4
[...] (S/NF) Yudhoyono's relatives seen as key advisors on policy... Yudhoyono held off pressure on Taufik Kiemas... Yudhoyono directed intelligence agency to surveil State Secretary... Cabinet members seen as sympathetic toward SIPDIS radicals... Security forces' ties to Islam Defenders' Front ( [...]
2006-05-09 09:29:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA5852INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS APRIL
[...] Summary. April year-on-year (YoY) inflation fell slightly to 15.4 percent from 15.74 percent in March, continuing an expected gradual downward trend. Bank Indonesia cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 12.5 percent on May 9, a widely expected move in light of inflation easing. The Indon [...]
2006-05-09 09:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5853UNHCR TO ADJUDICATE BURMESE CASES
[...] (C) Shinji Kubo, Head of Protective Services at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees told us that UNHCR struck a confidential "gentlemen's agreement" on May 9 with the Immigration office in Jakarta and the head of Immigration in Aceh, to transfer the 77 Burmese refugees currently b [...]
2006-05-09 10:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV KJUS CVIS EAD ID BM
06JAKARTA5886IRAN/INDONESIA: YUDHOYONO CALLS FOR NEGOTIATED
[...] (C) Summary. Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad May 10 received a warm welcome on the first full day of his State visit to Indonesia. Following his meeting with Ahmadi-Nejad in Jakarta, Indonesian President Yudhoyono publicly described Iran's nuclear program as peaceful, but called for the tensi [...]
2006-05-10 10:44:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL KNNP IR ID
06JAKARTA59YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: LAUNCHING A RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your January 8-10 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) [...]
2006-01-03 11:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL ID
06JAKARTA5917Makassar Killing Sparks Fears of Race Riot
[...] (SBU) Summary: Protests led by thousands of university students in Makassar, South Sulawesi against an alleged killing of a local maid by an ethnic Chinese man briefly escalated into a near-riot in the evening of May 9. Police ably negotiated with demonstrators to quickly and peacefully dispe [...]
2006-05-11 00:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINS CASC PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5930INDONESIA AND BOYCOTT STATUTES
[...] (SBU) Indonesia does not formally comply with the Arab League Boycott of Israel. Indonesians may travel to Israel with Indonesian passports but Indonesia does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel. There is no official data at the Ministry of Trade for trade with Israel, though it [...]
2006-05-11 07:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKBCT ABLD ECON ETRD PHUM PIRF AL ID
06JAKARTA5979BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON
[...] We contacted Indonesian Air Force Procurement Control Officer Major Yusran Lubis on April 6 to verify whether the Air Force ordered C-130 spare parts through Glamco Aviation (Glamco) located in Singapore. According to Major Lubis, the Air Force did not request the order through Glamco. He [...]
2006-05-12 06:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMS ETTC ECON ID SN
06JAKARTA6017THE DOWNSIDE OF DECENTRALIZATION: LOCALIZED
[...] (C) Summary: Proponents of Islamic Shariah law enjoy growing success exploiting Indonesia's political decentralization to implement "Islamic morality" principles on a local basis. Promulgated by local governments through legislation or executive decrees, Shariah measures or more deceptively-p [...]
2006-05-12 08:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA6018INDONESIA - SUPREME AUDIT BOARD LOSING ITS WAY
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK),one of Indonesia's key anti-corruption institutions, appears losing its way because of weak leadership, internal power struggles and a lack of reform. The BPK's first "Advisory Board on Tsunami-Related Audit" conference April 24-25 in Jakarta [...]
2006-05-12 08:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID KCOR PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6020BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK AS INDONESIAN AIR
[...] Summary. The Indonesian Air Force (AF) verified that a division of the Air Force Procurement Service has ordered the C-130 radar components detailed in reftel. The AF seeks to purchase the C-130 radar components through their local agent PT. Dwi Anugrah, which sub-contracted the order to the [...]
2006-05-12 09:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMS ETTC ECON ID SN US
06JAKARTA6024INDONESIA: May 11 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE (AI)
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 2, Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka delivered a list of planned donations of Tamiflu and personal protective equipment (PPEs) to ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong. The tamilfu and PPEs are SIPDIS for ASEAN's use in case of an influenza pandemic. Th [...]
2006-05-12 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA6025INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]
2006-05-12 12:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6026INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]
2006-05-14 23:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6027INDONESIA RACES TO BUILD BSL-3 LABS
[...] (C) Summary. The avian influenza (AI) threat has sparked a race among Government of Indonesia (GOI) institutions to build Biosafety Containment Level 3 laboratories (BSL-3 labs),ostensibly to perform AI sequencing and other sophisticated procedures. At least seven GOI institutions hope to c [...]
2006-05-15 00:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA6120Indonesia: East Java Banks' Conservatism Causing
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: East Java accounts for 15 percent of Indonesia's GDP, 20 percent of total population and is an important industrial and manufacturing center in Indonesia. Credit contraction, increasing non-performing loans (NPLs) and declining inflation, implying demand reductions, are slowing [...]
2006-05-15 07:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6150INDONESIA REPORTS LARGE AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI)
[...] (SBU) Summary: Six members of a Medan family have tested positive for the H5N1 virus by NAMRU-2, and five have died as of May 15. Four of these have been confirmed by both the University of Hong Kong (UHK) and CDC Atlanta. Two members from this cluster remain hospitalized, with one intubated [...]
2006-05-15 11:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA616AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO
[...] (C) President Yudhoyono (SBY) told the Ambassador, January 16, of an increased need for regional counterterrorism cooperation, notably in the region of Sabah/East Kalimantan, and that he would welcome U.S. assistance to this end. He asked the Ambassador to work with the Defense Minister and [...]
2006-01-17 13:28:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EPET PGOV PTER PHUM
06JAKARTA617INDONESIA SOFT ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC
[...] Summary: On January 16, the Ambassador followed up the Secretary's telephone call to Foreign Minister Wirajuda SIPDIS seeking Indonesian support for referral of Iran to the UN Security Council by the IAEA Board of Governors. The Ambassador called for Indonesia to serve as a strong voice i [...]
2006-01-17 14:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC ID
06JAKARTA6200JAKARTA CT SEMINAR BUILDS ON PARIS PROGRAM,
[...] (C) Sixty Indonesian counterterrorism officials participated in an intensive four-day U.S.-funded seminar in Jakarta on CT legislation, marking the next step in U.S-French-Indonesian CT cooperation. Co-hosted by the CT Desk at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affai [...]
2006-05-16 09:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS FR ID
06JAKARTA6201D-8 SUMMIT KEEPS FOCUS ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian hosts and other participants at the D-8 Summit in Bali succeeded in preventing Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad from using the event as a platform to drum up support for his country's nuclear program. The D-8 (which also includes Turkey, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, M [...]
2006-05-16 10:08:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALAORC KISL KNNP PREL TU IR ID
06JAKARTA6248JAKARTA EMBARRASSED BY "UNPLANNED" CHEN STOPOVER
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian's May 11-12 "refueling stopover" on the Indonesian island of Batam turned into an overnight visit that included a tour of an industrial park and a dinner hosted by the Taiwanese business community with the provincial governor in attendance. T [...]
2006-05-17 10:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL CH TW ID
06JAKARTA6331LEGISLATURE AIMING TO PASS ACEH LAW
[...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) aims to pass the Law on Governing Aceh within weeks, and a senior member of the Special Committee deliberating the draft considered this goal attainable. Golkar legislator Marzuki Darusman told us on May 8 that political parties sought to avoi [...]
2006-05-18 09:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA6332GOI DROPS CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST FORMER
[...] (C) The Yudhoyono administration appeared inconsistent and confused as prosecutors dropped corruption charges against ailing former President Suharto. The handling of Suharto's case illustrates poor policy coordination at the top level of the GOI, and the outcome appears to have reduced, at le [...]
2006-05-18 10:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA6335INDONESIA 2006 SECTION 527 INVESTMENT DISPUTES
[...] As requested in reftel, the following is post,s submission for the Department,s annual Section 527 report to Congress on U.S. citizen expropriation claims and other investment disputes involving foreign governments/economies. This cable updates post,s 2005 submission. 2. The United States [...]
2006-05-19 01:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6392POLICE KILL TWO IN CLASH WITH MOB IN WAMENA
[...] (C) Summary. Police reportedly fired on an attacking mob of some 200 villagers in Wamena, Papua, killing two persons. The clash occurred on May 17 when police move to arrest David Hubi, a former district chief who faces corruption charges. Police briefly detained over 100 villagers, including [...]
2006-05-19 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA6393EXECUTION ORDERS FOR BALI BOMBERS SIGNED, BUT
[...] (C) Australian diplomats informed us that the GOI has initiated execution procedures for 2002 Bali bombers Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra, and Ali Gufron alias Muklas; however, the timing remains uncertain, as questions remain regarding the final disposition of pardon requests, Judicial Re [...]
2006-05-19 11:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA6433APCSS SUPPORT FOR NSC SEMINAR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 06:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6493SCENESETTER: SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO JAKARTA
[...] (C) Summary: Mr. Secretary: Your strong support for the Administration's decision to move quickly in November to normalize military-to-military ties with Indonesia has given a new, more cooperative quality to bilateral relations across the range of our interests. You will have the opportuni [...]
2006-05-22 09:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA6495INDONESIA: MEDAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CLUSTER UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fatal cases of H5N1 infection have occurred in three separate locations in Indonesia since May 18, 2006. These include a seventh family member associated with the cluster of cases in Northern Sumatra (refs A and B). Another family member identified with infection last week rem [...]
2006-05-22 12:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA6497Aceh: GAM Reintegration Advances Despite Obstacles
[...] (SBU) Summary. Successful reintegration of Free Aceh Movement (GAM) ex-combatants and others, essential to ensuring long term peace in Aceh, has advanced but still faces obstacles. Reintegration payments promised by GOI have arrived only slowly. Aceh's economy remains flat or worse, with a [...]
2006-05-23 00:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL ASEC SNAR SOCI ID
06JAKARTA6648INDONESIA COPES WITH HIGH OIL PRICES
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia's (GOI) October 2005 decision to slash fuel subsidies has better positioned Indonesia's economy to withstand the macroeconomic pressures from sustained high global fuel prices. Domestic fuel consumption, and very likely illegal smuggling of subsidize [...]
2006-05-26 08:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA6653JAKARTA MAY 28 EMBASSY MEETING RE EARTHQUAKE
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador chaired a Sunday, May 28 meeting to discuss the Embassy's posture and reaction to the May 27 earthquake in Central Java, southwest of the city of Yogyakarta. Participants (DCM, POL, ECON, AID, CONS, DAO, ODC, PAS) examined the initial situation reporting, the safet [...]
2006-05-28 06:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC CASC SOCI PREF PGOV SENV ID
06JAKARTA6658INDONESIA: MAY 29 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) Summary: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck early May 27 south of the central Java town of Yogyakarta, causing widespread destruction and high fatalities. The current death toll has reached 5,010 with an additional 14,000 injured in the earthquake, with 8,000 requiring surgery (hospital c [...]
2006-05-29 11:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC SOCI PREF PGOV SENV ID
06JAKARTA6770STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT WITH INDONESIA
[...] (C) May 30, PolCouns pressed Harry Purwanto, Foreign Ministry Director for North and Central American Affairs, about our pending request for a temporary SOFA agreement in connection with the Yogyakarta earthquake relief effort. Purwanto replied that "internal consultations" were ongoing, and [...]
2006-05-30 09:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL KTIA EAID ID
06JAKARTA6771INDONESIA: MAY 30 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,427 dead and 7,519 seriously injured. So far, no Americans appear among the dead or wounded. The GOI has begun a needs assessment but will likely focus on reconstruction of public facilities, infrastructure, and hous [...]
2006-05-30 10:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6772INDONESIA: MAY 30 EARTHQUAKE SITREP - CORRECTED
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,427 dead and 7,519 seriously injured. So far, no Americans appear among the dead or wounded. The GOI has begun a needs assessment but will likely focus on reconstruction of public facilities, infrastructure, and hous [...]
2006-05-30 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6773GOI RESPONDS TO STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT REQUEST
[...] (C) Subsequent to transmission of reftel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs faxed a formal reply late May 30 to our request to implement a SOFA in conjunction with the Yogyakarta earthquake relief. The reply agrees to the principle of establishing a SOFA, but modifies the agreement reached in [...]
2006-05-30 12:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL KTIA EAID ID
06JAKARTA6802PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES LOW-KEY VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 26 visit to Indonesia, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Mahmud Al-Zahar elicited statements of support for Palestinian statehood from GOI President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other senior GOI officials. After meeting with his Palestinian counterpart, Foreign Mi [...]
2006-05-31 06:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA6810CIVAIR - OPEN SKIES BLANKET DESIGNATION FOLLOW UP
[...] We delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 28 designating all U.S. air carriers as authorized carriers under the Open Skies Agreement between the United States and Indonesia (reftel). We also discussed the purpose of the designation with Lilien Ambarwiyati, Dep [...]
2006-05-31 08:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR KTIA ID
06JAKARTA6811AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR QUICK AGREEMENT ON SOFA
[...] (C) During a May 31 visit to Yogyakarta, Ambassador pressed Presidential foreign policy adviser Dino Djalal to weigh in on the Foreign Ministry's response (ref. B) to our request for a temporary SOFA agreement in conjunction with earthquake relief efforts there. The Ambassador told Djalal th [...]
2006-05-31 09:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR KTIA EAID MOPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA6812INDONESIA: MAY 31 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Three additional cases of H5N1 infection have occurred in two locations in Indonesia since May 22 (ref). Two of these have resulted in fatalities, including a 10-year old girl and her 18-year old brother, both whom died 21 May in Bandung, West Java. NAMRU-2 and the Ministry of [...]
2006-05-31 09:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA6813INDONESIA: MAY 31 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,846 dead and 22,731 injured. No Americans appear among the dead or wounded. USAID partners provide medical treatment and supplies to afflicted areas. Approximately 75 U.S. military personnel have arrived, and we expe [...]
2006-05-31 10:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6823REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM POST
[...] AMBASSADOR B. LYNN PASCOE PROPOSES TO BE ABSENT FROM POST FROM TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2006 TO WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006. PURPOSE WILL BE R&R TRAVEL TO THE U.S. AND DEPARTMENT CONSULTATIONS JUNE 19-21. PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOLLOWS: TUESDAY, JUNE 13 5:05PM DEP JAKARTA VIA SQ 161 7:40PM ARR SING [...]
2006-06-01 06:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER OTRA
06JAKARTA6910INDONESIA: JUNE 1 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 6,234 dead and 46,148 injured. No Americans appear among the dead or wounded. Experts report that basic medical supplies remain in need. USAID partners have surveyed water systems and sanitation conditions in afflicted [...]
2006-06-01 09:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6911INDONESIA: U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points and our request for a public GOI statement of support to Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda on June 1 (other discussion topics reported septel). Visibly pleased by the U.S. approach on Iran, Wirajuda said he had watched the Secretary deliver [...]
2006-06-01 10:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6912AMBASSADOR LOBBIES FOREIGN MINISTER ON SOFA
[...] (C) During a June 1 meeting with Foreign Minister Wirajuda (other subjects septel),the Ambassador noted that while the presence of U.S. military personnel in Yogyakarta for earthquake relief is expected to be short, the United States considers a SOFA important to cover those deployments. Fo [...]
2006-06-01 10:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS EAID PREL KTIA ID
06JAKARTA7009INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON VISIT BY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 08:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA7010INDONESIA: JUNE 2 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) As of June 2, the GOI continued to report 6,234 dead and 46,148 injured, with no Americans among the dead or injured. NGOs appear primarily concerned about the lack of potable water. As of June 1, USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance has provided 1,660,682 USD in assistance for t [...]
2006-06-02 08:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA7013INDONESIA SAYS IT WILL REPAY IMF EARLY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) announced on May 23 that Indonesia would repay the USD 7.7 billion remaining of its standby reserve loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) three years ahead of schedule by 2007. Bank Indonesia (BI) has reportedly prop [...]
2006-06-02 09:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA7014COORDINATING MINISTER BOEDIONO ON THE INVESTMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono told the Ambassador May 24 that the Government of Indonesia (GOI) would "step back" from the labor reform process to give unions and employers time to work out a compromise on severance pay and other issues. He provided detail [...]
2006-06-02 10:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN PREL KFLU ID
06JAKARTA7015NEGOTIATING A SOFA WITH INDONESIA
[...] (C) Summary: We have attempted at senior levels to obtain the same SOFA we had twice in 2005 in order to avoid protracted negotiations over language that might threaten both our long term position and practices already occurring on the ground in Yogyakarta, notably with respect to weapons an [...]
2006-06-03 06:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL KTIA ID
06JAKARTA7157GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS: INDONESIA POSITION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-06 08:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR WTRO ID
06JAKARTA7166INDONESIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last four weeks, Indonesian authorities have investigated four potential avian influenza (AI) clusters with assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and NAMRU-2. These include the well- documented North Sumatra family cluster that resulted in seven confirme [...]
2006-06-07 06:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA7207USAID Mission Director Meets GAM Leader 5/23
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy USAID Mission Director William Frej met Free Aceh Movement (GAM) "Prime Minister" Malik Mahmoud May 23 in Banda Aceh. Mahmoud expressed optimism about the possibility of long lasting peace in Aceh, but noted a recent rise in crime as well as rumors of unauthorized incre [...]
2006-06-07 07:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL ASEC SNAR SOCI ID
06JAKARTA7216INDONESIA RESPONDS CONSTRUCTIVELY TO TIP DEMARCHE,
[...] (SBU) We delivered the Indonesia TIP report demarche (ref D) to relevant senior GOI officials. Based on the existing strong partnership with the U.S. Mission, the officials responded constructively with a litany of recent and near-term actions. The outlook for passage this year of the anti- [...]
2006-06-07 11:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL EAID ELAB KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA7278 DEMARCHE ON THE ASEAN-U.S. ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP
[...] Econ officerWe delivered on June 8 reftel demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorate of North and Central American Affairs Ahimsa Sukartono of the Directorate of North and Central American Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on June 8, emphasizing a sense of [...]
2006-06-08 08:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL ECIN ASEAN ID
06JAKARTA7279DEMARCHE ON THE ASEAN-U.S. ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-08 09:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL ECIN ASEAN ID
06JAKARTA7340INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS MAY
[...] Summary. On May 31, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced a slight increase in consumer price inflation, at 15.6 year-on-year (YoY) and 0.4 percent month- on-month (MoM). BPS also announced on May 15 first quarter GDP growth of 4.6 percent YoY, the slowest pace in two years. On M [...]
2006-06-09 09:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA7345YUDHOYONO ORDERS CRACKDOWN AGAINST MILITANT
[...] (C) President Yudhoyono (SBY) has decided to act against militant activities that have increasingly threatened civil society, the rule of law and tarnished Indonesia's image. In the process, he has wrapped himself in a much more traditional nationalist mantle, using Pancasila ideology as a t [...]
2006-06-09 11:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA7378PREPARING FOR THE MARITIME BORDER CONTROL NEEDS
[...] (U) This is an action request:see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Summary: Embassy Jakarta strongly supports S/CT's Ref A interest in a border control needs assessment for the Indonesia, Philippines, and Malaysia triborder area. Post agrees that host nation support is essential and will discuss the po [...]
2006-06-12 07:36:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
06JAKARTA7393APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH AN INDONESIA REWARDS PROGRAM
[...] (U) Action Request: See paragraphs 3 and 14. 2. (C) Summary. Embassy Jakarta approves moving forward with the establishment of a discreet Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program in Indonesia and requests the assistance of DS/RFJ, SOCOM, and SOCPAC. Indonesian National Police (INP) investigators [...]
2006-06-12 08:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC MOPS PREL PINS ID
06JAKARTA7397REMOVING FORMER JI-LEADER NASIR ABAS FROM
[...] (C) Summary. We believe the time has come for former Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist network leader Nasir Abas to be removed from the U.S. and UN terrorist finance lists. We believe that it is critical to respond to the requests to do so by our closest national security contacts. Now conside [...]
2006-06-12 09:53:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
06JAKARTA7398WHAT'S NEXT FOR ABU BAKAR BA'ASYIR AND JEMAAH
[...] (C) On June 14, Jemaah Islamiyah spiritual leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir will leave Cipinang Penitentiary a free man, having completed his second prison term. Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI),the political wing of JI, and an interdenominational group of religious leaders plan to greet the cleri [...]
2006-06-12 10:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA7501TERRORIST FINANCE: THE GOI AND 1267 DESIGNATIONS
[...] (S) Summary: This cable provides post,s responses and comments to questions and issues raised in ref a. Embassy Jakarta supports the creation of a bilateral group to discuss counter terrorism finance (CTF) issues and sees a proposed U.S.-Indonesia Justice Sector Joint Working Group (JSJWG) C [...]
2006-06-14 02:11:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER ID
06JAKARTA7555JEMMAH ISLAMIYAH EMIR ABU BAKAR BA'ASYIR RELEASED
[...] (C) Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, left Cipinang Penitentiary a free man June 14 at the conclusion of his 25 1/2 month sentence. Family, defense attorneys, and a few hundred supports greeted the cleric in a generally muted public response. Ba'asyir gave a short [...]
2006-06-14 10:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA7556TIMIKA TRIAL LIKELY IN MID-JULY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. A senior official in the General Crimes division of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) assured us on June 14 that the prosecution of seven persons in connection with the August 31, 2002 killings of two Americans in Timika, Papua, is still on track. The prosecution's dossiers [...]
2006-06-14 10:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA7561INDONESIA: SIX MONTHS OF NORMALIZED MIL-MIL
[...] (C) Summary: A bit over six months after the Administration moved to normalize military relations with Indonesia the U.S. has gained traction on a broad range of issues in ways we previously found impossible. No aspect of our bilateral relationship has experienced more pronounced change tha [...]
2006-06-15 04:02:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA7614East Java: Suspected AI Death Exposes Local
[...] (SBU) Summary: A 10 month old child in Tulungagung, East Java is suspected to have died June 4 of Avian Influenza. The inexperienced local hospital doctor did not recognize the AI symptoms and released the child's body for burial prior to taking any blood samples. Regency health officials ar [...]
2006-06-15 09:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV KFLU ID
06JAKARTA7626INDONESIA - JUNE 16 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Executive Director of the National Committee for AI and Pandemic Control (Komnas) Bayu Krisnamurti told participants in a June 12 AI donor meeting that the GOI would host a WHO-led technical assessment of its AI strategy June 21-23, with participation from the World Bank and [...]
2006-06-16 05:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA7660DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON JUNE 19 - 21 OIC
[...] (C) We met June 15 with Ms. Ratu Silvy Gayatri and Ms. Carolina Tinangon of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs' International Security Directorate to deliver the demarche on the upcoming OIC conference (reftel A). Both officials were quite familiar with our views on Iran's nuclear p [...]
2006-06-16 09:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP IR ID
06JAKARTA7661NORTH SUMATRA AVIAN INFLUENZA CLUSTER - LESSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The May 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak in a North Sumatra family represents the largest human H5N1 cluster to date and brought with it intense worldwide media attention to Indonesia's AI response capacity. A look back at the response to the cluster by the Government of Indo [...]
2006-06-16 09:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA7662MINISTER OF TRADE REQUEST GSP TRADE RELATED
[...] (SBU) Embassy recieved on June 15 the following letter from Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu to USTR Susan Schwab requesting that the U.S. Government consider providing termprary GSP access for textile and garment companies in areas affected by the May 27 earthquake in the regions of Jogjakarta [...]
2006-06-16 10:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PREL ID
06JAKARTA7666AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ISPS PORT REVIEW AND CIVIL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador urged Minister of Transportation Hatta Rajasa on June 12 to encourage his Ministry to make its best efforts to improve port security prior to the June 19-29 Coast Guard final review of Indonesian port security under the International Shipping and Port Facility Co [...]
2006-06-18 23:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAIR ECON ETRD EWWT ID PREL PTER
06JAKARTA7667AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ISPS PORT REVIEW AND CIVIL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador urged Minister of Transportation Hatta Rajasa on June 12 to encourage his Ministry to make its best efforts to improve port security prior to the June 19-29 Coast Guard final review of Indonesian port security under the International Shipping and Port Facility Co [...]
2006-06-18 23:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAIR EWWT PREL PTER ID
06JAKARTA7716DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 09:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNHRC KUNR IS ID
06JAKARTA7718BANK INDONESIA TO CONTINUE CAUTIOUS LOWERING
[...] (SBU) Summary. Bank Indonesia (BI) Deputy Governor Hartadi Sarwono told us on June 13 that BI remains confident consumer price inflation will fall to less than seven percent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis by the end of 2006, leaving BI room to continue a "cautious lowering" of interest rates ov [...]
2006-06-19 09:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA7719RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: NO END TO AHMADIYAH PLIGHT IN
[...] (SBU) Ahmadiyah followers continue to face difficulties in Indonesia, where many mainstream Muslims consider their sect heretical. Most recently, in West and Central Lombok, mobs from local communities in February and March burned or otherwise destroyed dozens of Ahmadiyah homes in two separat [...]
2006-06-19 10:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF KJUS KISL ID
06JAKARTA7839East Java: Toxic Mudflow Forces Evacuations;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A gas well being drilled 40 yards from the main north south transportation corridor in East Java, the Surabaya - Gempol toll road, fractured and has been spewing hot, potentially toxic mud 12 miles south of Surabaya in Porong, East Java since May 29. The rate of mud flows have [...]
2006-06-21 10:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET PGOV ID
06JAKARTA7909TIMIKA CASE: PROSECUTION DOSSIERS COMPLETED, SENT
[...] (U) Summary. Indonesian prosecutors June 21 turned over the dossiers of Anthonious Wamang and six co-conspirators in the August 31, 2002 murders of two Amcits and one Indonesian to the Central Jakarta District Court. We expect the court within ten days to set a trial date and appoint a panel [...]
2006-06-23 05:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA7941ADVISOR WORRIES ABOUT YUDHOYONO'S POLITICAL
[...] (S/NF) President Yudhoyono has yet to consolidate political power and could lose his 2009 reelection bid if he cannot show significant achievements in the near future, according to T.B. Silalahi, Special Advisor to the President. In a June 13 meeting, T.B. told us that he had recently sought [...]
2006-06-23 09:51:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPGOV KDEM ID
06JAKARTA7944INDONESIA - SLOW PROGRESS ON INVESTMENT REFORMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Indonesia (GOI),led by Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono, continues to move ahead with the broad array of reforms outlined in its February 27 investment climate policy package. Parliament held hearings on the GOI's draft investment law (Ref A) o [...]
2006-06-23 10:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON EFIN ID
06JAKARTA8006DONORS OFFER FINANCING, EARTHQUAKE HELP AT CGI
[...] (U) Summary. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Boediono and other Government of Indonesia (GOI) ministers expressed optimism that economic growth and investment would pick up in the second half of 2006 at the June 14 Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) meeting in Jakarta. Several Minist [...]
2006-06-26 10:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV ECON EFIN KMCA PTER PREL ID
06JAKARTA8063LUMINARIES STRUGGLE TO SUGGEST WAY FORWARD AT
[...] (C) Summary. Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, hosted some 300 scholars from 53 countries for its second International Conference of Islamic Scholars June 20-22 in Jakarta and Bogor to address Islamic solutions for economic and social ills facing Muslims, especia [...]
2006-06-27 09:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ID
06JAKARTA8064ACEH LAW INCHING CLOSER TO PASSAGE
[...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR),moving along at a characteristically glacial pace, continues to deliberate the finer points of the draft law on Governing Aceh at the Committee level. The principle remaining issue involves fund transfers from the central government. While [...]
2006-06-27 09:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA8078HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH LAUNCHES REPORT ON TNI
[...] (U) Summary: In a June 22 Jakarta event, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Asia launched its research paper on the human rights impact of the Indonesian military's (TNI) business practices. Journalists, human rights defenders, diplomats and several high-ranking military officials attended HRW's pres [...]
2006-06-27 10:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KISL ID
06JAKARTA8079WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: TRANSMITTAL OF U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-27 11:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO ID
06JAKARTA8088TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF IIRO
[...] (S) As requested in reftel, we met with Department of Foreign Affairs Directorate of International Security and Disarmament Fajar Wirawan Harijo on June 27 to pre-notify him of the USG,s intention to request on July 20 UN 1267 designation of the Philippines and Indonesia branches of the Inter [...]
2006-06-28 05:31:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN KTFN KISL PTER PREL ETTC ID
06JAKARTA8107IPR Update - GOI Making Steady Progress
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the first meeting of the Indonesian Government's (GOI) newly-established National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Task Force on June 7 Indonesia National Police (INP) Chief General Sutanto and Attorney General Abdul Rachman Saleh pledged to improve IPR enforcement and Mini [...]
2006-06-28 08:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD WTO ECON ID
06JAKARTA8114IPR Update - GOI Making Steady Progress
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the first meeting of the Indonesian Government's (GOI) newly-established National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Task Force on June 7 Indonesia National Police (INP) Chief General Sutanto and Attorney General Abdul Rachman Saleh pledged to improve IPR enforcement and Mini [...]
2006-06-28 08:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD WTO ECON ID
06JAKARTA8117TRIAL OF TIMIKA SUSPECTS TO BEGIN JULY 4
[...] (SBU) Legatt, poloff, and conoff met June 28 with Abdul Hakim Ritonga, Acting Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes, who advised us that the trial of Anthonious Wamang and his co-conspirators would begin on July 4 in Central Jakarta District Court. Wamang faces charges including premedit [...]
2006-06-28 10:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA8179INDONESIA RESPONSIVE TO GPOI PARTNERSHIP PROPOSAL
[...] (C) Indonesia's coordinator for peacekeeping activities, Dr. Hassan Kleib, warmly received our offer for Indonesia to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI)(reftel). Kleib, who is Director for Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) [...]
2006-06-29 11:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA8182West Nusa Tenggara: Migrant Labor Exodus Creates
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB)--comprising Lombok and neighboring Sumbawa-- is one of the leading sources of legal and illegal migrant workers leaving Indonesia, due to weak local economic conditions. The exodus of NTB workers overseas is creating economic [...]
2006-06-30 03:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ELAB EAID KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA8249INDONESIA EXPELS TWO AMCITS FROM PAPUA
[...] (C) Summary. The Indonesian government's detention and expulsion of two Amcits who had planned to attend a Papuan indigenous group's conference illustrates Jakarta's increasing sensitivity about alleged foreign support for separatism. This suspicion has increased markedly since the Australia [...]
2006-06-30 11:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ASEC CASC AS ID
06JAKARTA8250East Java: Update - Mudflow Continues Unabated,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than a month after a gas well ruptured just outside of Surabaya, East Java, the mudflow continues unabated (Reftel). The good news is, the mud is most likely not harmful in the long term (even if a bit smelly in the short term) and that eventually, they should be able to c [...]
2006-07-01 07:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8259INDONESIA - JULY 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Government of Indonesia (GOI) chaired AI experts group concluded on June 23 that limited human-to- human transmission took place during the May 2006 North Sumatra cluster. However, the group noted that the confinement of the human-to-human transmission to the affected family [...]
2006-07-03 08:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8261INDONESIAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP, Q2
[...] (S/NF) Notes on Yudhoyono's inner circle... Notional uranium sale to Iran dead... Ba'asyir lawyer tied to State Intelligence Agency figure... Rumors VP Kalla flirted with figures hoping to topple Yudhoyono... Influencing judges in court case involving the National Awakening Party... Snapsh [...]
2006-07-03 08:58:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA8263PKS DEMONSTRATION ONCE AGAIN INVOLVES THE USE OF
[...] (C) During a July 2 Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) demonstration at the U.S. Embassy protesting Israeli actions in Gaza, at least one demonstrator brandished a toy gun (ref A). On July 3 the leading local English language daily carried a prominent photo in which one such demonstrator gleefull [...]
2006-07-03 11:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KISL KDEM ASEC ID
06JAKARTA8383OPENING OF TIMIKA TRIAL DEFERRED UNTIL JULY 11
[...] (SBU) The trial of Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators in the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua did not begin in Central Jakarta District Court on July 4 as originally planned (reftel). The suspects accepted the advice of their legal counsel, a team [...]
2006-07-05 08:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KJUS CASC ID
06JAKARTA8389FORMER GAM MEMBER KILLED IN ACEH SHOOTING
[...] (C) A former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebel was reportedly shot and killed by members of the Indonesian Military (TNI) during the course of an apparent dispute over a traffic violation in Northern Aceh. According to Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) head Peter Feith, AMM personnel were present at [...]
2006-07-05 10:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL PHUM MARR ID
06JAKARTA8390BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECKS ON
[...] Summary. The Indonesian Air Force (IDAF) verified on June 19 that the IDAF has ordered the C-130 components detailed in reftel through their local agent PT. Citra Wira Bawana (Citra). We also contacted a Citra official on June 2 and July 3 and verified the order. We will provide Washington [...]
2006-07-05 11:54:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMS ETTC ECON ID US
06JAKARTA8455 INDONESIA - COAST GUARD REVIEWS PORT SECURITY COMPLIANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. A team of U.S. Coast Guard officials found significant progress toward implementation of port security requirements under the International Shipping and Port Facility Code (ISPS) during a June 19-29 visit to four Indonesian ports. The team concluded that security conditions in t [...]
2006-07-06 07:57:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ECON EAIR ETRD PREL ID
06JAKARTA8505BALI II TRIALS PROGRESS, EXPERIENCED TERRORISM
[...] (C) The first four trials resulting from the investigation into the October 1, 2005 Bali bombings are ongoing. Mohammad Cholily, Abdul Aziz, Dwi Widiyarto, and Anif Solchanudin all face primary charges under Articles 6 and 15 of the 2003 Anti-Terrorism Law for participating in terrorist acts, [...]
2006-07-06 08:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER KISL KJUS KVPR PGOV ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA8506YUDHOYONO AND HOWARD BURY THE HATCHET IN BATAM
[...] (C) Summary. After a three-month chill in bilateral ties following Australia's decision to grant temporary asylum to 42 Papuan asylum seekers, Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sealed the two governments' reconciliation with a lightweight, feel-good [...]
2006-07-06 10:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER AS ID
06JAKARTA8507DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUPS
[...] (C) Summary. On July 6, officials at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) expressed interest in our proposal for creation of two new contact groups on the Sri Lankan conflict, and will let us know in the coming weeks about possible Indonesian participation. They said that the S [...]
2006-07-06 11:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PREF PGOV CE ID
06JAKARTA8614INDONESIA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS - MAY-
[...] Summary: Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu met with Parliament on June 7 and 22 to outline key provisions of the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) draft investment law. Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) figures showed foreign investment approvals dropped to USD 3.66 billion for the first five [...]
2006-07-10 08:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
06JAKARTA8618INDONESIA ENERGY AND MINING HIGHLIGHTS-JUNE 2006
[...] Summary. On June 2, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources' Directorate of Oil and Gas announced four foreign companies as winners in the 2005 oil and gas regular tender round. On June 15 the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources issued revised regulations designed to increase the tr [...]
2006-07-10 09:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA8620RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES POINTS
[...] (C) Pursuant to reftel instructions, July 10 we called on Harry Purwanto, Foreign Ministry Director for North and Central American Affairs and delivered the talking points and the White House statement. Purwanto replied that Indonesia's position of concern had been made public and that Indones [...]
2006-07-10 10:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KN ID
06JAKARTA8621INDONESIA - JULY 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Singaporean Embassy contacts expressed openness to revising key elements in the Singapore-Indonesia- U.S. Tangerang pilot project during a June 29 meeting with U.S. officials. The Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) office in Jakarta has received reports from a reputable private [...]
2006-07-10 11:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8622INDONESIA - MODEST TRADE OPENING WITH ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary. In the first initiative of its kind, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) Mohammed Hidayat led a 12-person delegation of Indonesian Christian and Muslim business representatives to Israel June 25-29. The group met several senior Israeli Government [...]
2006-07-10 12:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALAADP ETRD ETTC PREL ID
06JAKARTA8686INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS JUNE
[...] Summary. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced on July 3 a slight decrease in year-on-year (YoY) inflation in June 2006 to 15.5 percent. Citing improving macroeconomic trends, Bank Indonesia (BI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 12.25 percent on July 6. At their June 14 m [...]
2006-07-11 10:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8687TIMIKA DEFENDANTS STILL REFUSE TO APPEAR
[...] (SBU) The trial of Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators in the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua was delayed again when the defendants failed to appear for the second straight week (ref A). Defense lawyers from the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Right [...]
2006-07-12 00:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA8688TIMIKA DEFENDANTS STILL REFUSE TO APPEAR
[...] (SBU) The trial of Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators in the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua was delayed again when the defendants failed to appear for the second straight week (ref A). Defense lawyers from the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Right [...]
2006-07-12 00:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA873Indonesia's Ministry of Agriculture: Anatomy of
[...] (SBU) Summary. The GOI Ministry of Agriculture under the Leadership of Dr. Ir. Anton Apriyanto, formerly a researcher and lecturer on food ingredient technology, has made little headway in the year plus that he has been in place. From agricultural trade policy to Avian Influenza (AI),the o [...]
2006-01-24 04:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8732INDONESIA SECURITY FORCE REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED
[...] ( SBU) Post proposes the following Indonesian security force member for Department clearance for participation in EAP sponsored seminar: Global Transshipment and Enforcement: Synergies of Strategic Trace Control and Enforcement to commence on July 18. Post did not find any credible evidence o [...]
2006-07-12 09:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL KCRM MARR ID
06JAKARTA8734INDONESIA PASSES LAW ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF ACEH
[...] Summary: The Indonesian National Parliament late on July 11 passed the long awaited Law on the Administration of Aceh. The passage was welcomed by the Aceh Monitoring Mission, which is meeting with the parties to the Memorandum of Understanding of August 15, 2005 before offering its assessme [...]
2006-07-12 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA8735INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH-JUNE 2006
[...] Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) called for thorough fire prevention planning on June 17 to stop smoke haze export to neighboring countries. On June 27, State Minister of Environment Rachmat Witoelar released a 2005 "State of the Environment Report" listing 65 environmental [...]
2006-07-13 00:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO EIND ID
06JAKARTA8736INDONESIA PASSES LAW ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF ACEH
[...] Summary: The Indonesian National Parliament late on July 11 passed the long awaited Law on the Administration of Aceh. The passage was welcomed by the Aceh Monitoring Mission, which is meeting with the parties to the Memorandum of Understanding of August 15, 2005 before offering its assessme [...]
2006-07-13 00:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA8792INDONESIAN PARTICIPANTS FOR APEC SEMINAR ON
[...] This is an action request; see para 3. 2. Three different Government of Indonesia (GOI) agencies are deeply involved in the control of avian influenza (AI). The National Committee on Avian Influenza (KOMNAS) serves as the national coordinating entity. The Ministry of Health is the agency [...]
2006-07-13 10:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN TBIO KFLU APECO
06JAKARTA8794AMBASSADOR MEETS AG MINISTER TO DISCUSS MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Pascoe accompanied by Ag Counselor called on Minister of Agriculture Anton Apriyantono on July 12. The lead topic for discussion was technical market access barriers for US fresh fruit, especially grapes and apples. In addition, the Ambassador also raised market a [...]
2006-07-14 01:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR ID
06JAKARTA8800BATAM - A DEVELOPMENT MODEL FOR INDONESIA?
[...] (SBU) Summary: The July 25 Indonesia-Singapore "Framework Agreement on Economic Cooperation" aims to create an ambitious Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Batam and adjacent islands, already the site of one of Indonesia's most noteworthy manufacturing success stories. Batam's local economy conti [...]
2006-07-14 06:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON EFIN ELAB ID
06JAKARTA8854INDONESIA DELEGATION TO US-ASEAN TIFA JULY 17-21 IN
[...] We delivered reftel points to the Indonesian Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 13. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Deputy Director of Commodity and Natural Resources Musthafa Taufik Abdulatif said that he would be willing to discuss progress on the bilateral MOU on [...]
2006-07-14 09:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PGOV BM ID
06JAKARTA8858JAKARTA EAC MEETING JULY 14
[...] (C) Summary: The Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on July 14 to discuss REFTEL advisory and the possible effect on Indonesia of increased hostilities between Israel and Lebanon. EAC members agreed the issue had traction in Indonesia and that demonstrations were possible. EAC members agre [...]
2006-07-14 10:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALASEC AEMR PTER CASC PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8929BA'ASYIR ENJOYING HIGHER PROFILE AFTER RELEASE
[...] (C) Since his release from Cipinang prison on June 14, 2006 (ref A),Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) spiritual leader and Indonesia Mujihadin Council (MMI) Amir Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has used the public spotlight to promote jihad in the Middle East and Shari'a law in Indonesia in an attempt to broaden his [...]
2006-07-18 01:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA8954MUNIR CASE: JUSTICE STILL ELUSIVE
[...] (C) Police investigation into the larger conspiracy behind Indonesian human rights campaigner Munir's death remains at a standstill. Pollycarpus (PC),convicted for the murder of Munir, alleged the police are torturing him for information. Activists are strategizing how to use the upcoming Sup [...]
2006-07-18 09:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA8955INDONESIA - JULY 18 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. As of July 18, data from the Mission's Naval Medical Research Center (NAMRU-2) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) show 43 confirmed deaths from Avian Influenza. Once the WHO posts laboratory confirmation results on its website, Indonesia should overtake Vietnam for the world lead [...]
2006-07-18 09:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8958TIMIKA TRIAL OPENS
[...] (SBU) Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators appeared in Jakarta Central Court on July 18 to face charges in connection with the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua. The three-hour July 18 session was administrative in nature, devoted to identifying the [...]
2006-07-18 10:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA8959INDONESIA: JULY 17 TSUNAMI-EARTHQUAKE UPDATE
[...] Summary. Casualty reports from the July 17 earthquake/tsunami in southern Java are mixed with local TV station Metro TV reporting 314 dead, Associated Press reporting 306 dead, and local government authorities noting 141 dead. Most observers expect casualty figures to rise as more information [...]
2006-07-19 00:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR CASC EAID PREF SENV SOCI ID
06JAKARTA8961INDONESIA - 2006 AMENDED IPR PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] This cable amends Embassy Jakarta's FY2006 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) project proposal for INL Bureau funding contained in ref A. We continue to support our initial request of USD 356,000 to fund one senior technical advisor for a second and final year. In addition, we now request U [...]
2006-07-19 03:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD ECON ID
06JAKARTA9043WEST JAVA: A SNAPSHOT OF THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
[...] (C) With the second most registered voters and the largest population of any Indonesian province, West Java will figure prominently in the political calculus of each of the major parties as they begin to position themselves for the 2009 legislative and presidential election. West Java,s nation [...]
2006-07-19 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA9044INDONESIA TSUNAMI-EARTHQUAKE JULY 19 UPDATE
[...] Summary. The GOI has raised its count of victims from the July 17 earthquake and tsunami to 525 dead, 383 injured and 273 missing. Most observers expect the casualty figures to continue to rise as more information becomes available. An estimated 51,000 people have been displaced. The West Jav [...]
2006-07-19 10:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR CASC EAID PREL SENV SOCI ID
06JAKARTA9045NASIR ABAS DISCUSSES HIS APPEAL FOR UN DELISTING
[...] (S) Summary. Per REFTEL, former terrorist Nasir Abas, now a key CT asset of the Indonesian National Police (INP),met with Embassy officers in Jakarta on June 4 and discussed his request to be removed from the U.S. and U.N. lists of designated terrorists. The following additional details of [...]
2006-07-19 10:36:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO KVPR CVIS KISL
06JAKARTA9156BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3--PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECKS ON
[...] Summary: PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) verified on July 21 that it ordered the CN235 components from Summit Aviation in October 21, 2005 (see reftel). The transaction is related to a sales contract from 1996 between DI and Indonesia's Department of Defense to build CN235 aircraft for the Ind [...]
2006-07-21 08:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC ECON ID
06JAKARTA9157RESPONSE RE PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT
[...] Post sees no potential implications to U.S. foreign policy concerns proposed research project no. AG02667601 involving a foreign institution, pending human subject approval, of NIH's proposed award to the research project entitled "The Fourth Indonesian Family Life Survey of Aging." Post unde [...]
2006-07-21 09:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OSCI KSCA ID
06JAKARTA9159INDONESIA TSUNAMI-EARTHQUAKE JULY 21 UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-21 09:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR CASC EAID PREL SENV SOCI ID
06JAKARTA9160GOI EFFORTS STOKE OPTIMISM FOR POSO PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. GOI initiatives spearheaded by the Indonesian National Police (INP) are moving conflict-ridden Central Sulawesi toward peace, according to top INP investigators focused on the area. The arrest of the terrorists behind many of the violent attacks since the 2001 Malino peace agreem [...]
2006-07-21 10:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO KVPR CVIS ID
06JAKARTA9161PAPUAN POLITICAL ROUND-UP, JULY 2006
[...] (C) Introduction and summary. This messages provides a survey of recent developments in Papuan politics. During a July 10 - 15 visit to Jayapura, poloff found the Papuan scene in a holding pattern. Barnabas "Bas" Suebu, the winner of the March 10 direct elections for governor, had still not [...]
2006-07-21 11:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA9262CALL FOR BALANCED ASEAN STATEMENT CONVEYED TO
[...] (SBU) Drawing on reftel A, we urged on July 24 that ASEAN adopt a balanced approach to the current violence in Lebanon and Isreal. We conveyed talking points contained reftel to Aziz Nurwahyudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs' Subdirectorate for ASEAN Political and Security Af [...]
2006-07-24 10:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN LE IS ID
06JAKARTA9266RESPONSE RE MISUSE OF LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH
[...] Reftel requested that the Government of Indonesia (GOI) provide a point of contact for issues concerning the potential for misuse of dual use life sciences research. The GOI has provided the following name and contact information as its designated point of contact: Dr. Erna Tresnaningsih, MO [...]
2006-07-25 04:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PTER EAGR ID
06JAKARTA9268AMM TO STAY IN ACEH THROUGH ELECTIONS (NOVEMBER 22)
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-25 06:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA9269RESPONSE RE PROPOSED NIH RESEARCH PROJECT
[...] In response to reftel, Embassy sees no potential U.S. foreign policy concerns regarding NIH's proposed award to the research project entitled "Prospective Studies of Avian Influenza Transmission in Asia," No. AI068803, pending human subject approval. Post understands research institutions inv [...]
2006-07-25 06:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OSCI KSCA ID
06JAKARTA9333AMM TO STAY IN ACEH THROUGH ELECTIONS (NOVEMBER 22)
[...] (C) Summary: Aceh Monitoring Mission chief Peter Feith told the Ambassador in Aceh that the AMM had decided to extend its presence in Aceh through the new elections on November 22, a date which has not yet been announced publicly. The Ambassador, accompanied by USAID Mission Director Frej an [...]
2006-07-25 09:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA9334INDONESIAN HEALTH MINISTER PRAISES COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Health Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari told the Ambassador on July 24 that the Ministry of Health (MOH) is committed to cooperation with NAMRU-2 and will assist in the finalization of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). She noted that the Government of Indonesia (GOI) [...]
2006-07-25 10:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAGR KHIV ID PGOV KFLU SOCI
06JAKARTA9336INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Indonesia's (GOI) is making progress on a new infrastructure investment strategy. Major legislative and regulatory elements are replacing the failed pre-Financial Crisis system that relied largely on unsolicited offers by investors. The GOI has made important [...]
2006-07-25 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ENRG EAIR ELTN ECPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA9515INDONESIA - JULY 27 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-27 09:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA9526INDONESIA - 2006 BUDGET REVISIONS
[...] Summary. On July 12 the Minister of Finance presented the Parliament Government of Indonesia's (GOI) revisions to the 2006 budget. Significant changes include an increase in international oil price assumption to USD 62/barrel from USD 57, avoiding last year's mistake of clinging to an low oil [...]
2006-07-28 08:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA9575INDONESIAN POLICE CHIEF SUTANTO PRESSES REFORMS
[...] (C) Indonesian National Police (INP) Chief General Sutanto told the Ambassador July 25 that U.S. assistance was helping to keep the INP out front in Indonesia's democratization process. In a lunch meeting at the Residence, Sutanto said his top priority was creating a high quality, moral police [...]
2006-07-28 10:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV EFIN ASEC KCRM KHLS KPAO PINS KJUS
06JAKARTA9692NORTH SUMATRA AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION FINALLY BEGINS
[...] With a June 29 groundbreaking ceremony, work began on the construction of a new airport for North Sumatra at t Kuala Namu, about 30 miles east of Medan. The new airport will become operational in 2009 with one runway 3750 meters long and will eventually expand to two runways of the same len [...]
2006-08-02 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV EAIR EINT ID
06JAKARTA9697TIMIKA TRIAL: DEFENDANTS UNCOOPERATIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Defense lawyers appears for the first time at the August 1 session of the trial for the murder of two Amcits in Timika, Papua in 2002, but defendants continued their refusal to cooperate. Prosecutors say this will not alter the prosecution of the case, and expect to call Amcit w [...]
2006-08-02 04:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA9698DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA ON UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON
[...] (U) On August 1, we met with Ferry Adamhar, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Directorate for the Protection of Indonesian Citizens and Legal Entities, to deliver the demarche contained reftel. Mr. Adamhar welcomed our points and said he would coordinate the matter within the GOI [...]
2006-08-02 05:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF SMIG UNGA ID
06JAKARTA9860RESPONSE RE LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH
[...] Reftel B requested that the Government of Indonesia (GOI) provide a point of contact for issues concerning the potential for misuse of dual-use life sciences research. Post provided primary point of contact in Reftel A. GOI has provided a second point of contact for this issue. Please note th [...]
2006-08-04 09:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PTER EAGR ID
06JAKARTA9861PAPUA: GOVERNORS SWORN IN, SBY VISITS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The directly-elected governors of West Irian Jaya and Papua were sworn in without incident on July 24 and 25, respectively. The inaugurations mark the end of a long period of strife over the partition of Papua and the outcome of the March 10 direct elections. President Yudhoy [...]
2006-08-04 10:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PP ID
06JAKARTA9862MIDDLE EAST CRISIS MOBILIZING INDONESIA'S MUSLIMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The conllict in the Middle East has dominated Indonesianh(eadlines over the past two weeks, and reports o Israeli military operations in Lebanon are spurring action by both political and non-political actos". Press coverage is almost universally one-side,, with front-page head [...]
2006-08-04 11:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA9864GOI TO SPEND BILLIONS TO BOOST BIOFUELS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Indonesia (GOI) plans to invest USD 22 billion over the next five years to boost biofuel production in a bid to cut fossil fuel consumption. GOI officials say they will spend USD 6 billion to buy approximately 6 million hectares of land to grow the fuel feedstock [...]
2006-08-07 00:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV SENV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA9865INDONESIA ENERGY AND MINING HIGHLIGHTS-JULY 2006
[...] Summary. On June 17, the Downstream Regulatory Body BPH MIGAS announced the Bakrie Group won the tender for the USD 1.2 billion, 1,120-km pipeline from East Kalimantan to Central Java. On July 24, Britain's BP, Indonesia's Medco and a consortium of state oil company Pertamina and Amerada Hes [...]
2006-08-07 00:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA9867INDONESIA POWER HIGHLIGHTS-JULY 2006
[...] Summary. On July 5, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) issued Government Regulation 26/2006, revising provisions for electricity purchases under the direct appointment method. On July 18, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Decree 44/2006 for the purchase of power under the Acc [...]
2006-08-07 05:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA9914INDONESIA - AUGUST 4 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 3, the Minister of Health Siti Fadilah Supari announced that, effective immediately, the GOI would no longer send samples to the WHO-Influenza Reference laboratory in Hong Kong. Supari considers domestic laboratories, including U.S. NAMRU-2, sufficiently qualified to [...]
2006-08-07 08:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA9941INDONESIA TRADE AND INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS - JULY
[...] Summary: The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce met with members of Indonesia's Parliament on July 5 and voiced general support for the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) draft investment law. The Minister of Trade announced on July 26 that the GOI will establish an Investment Policy Committee and [...]
2006-08-08 06:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ECON KIPR ID
06JAKARTA9996TIMIKA TRIAL: DEFENSE FILES "EXCEPTION MOTION"
[...] (U) After several weeks of delay, the trial of the seven men accused of killing two Amcits in Timika, Papua in 2002 took a small step forward as defense attorneys submitted a 24-page "motion for exception" to the charges to the three judge panel. Although essentially just another delay tactic, [...]
2006-08-08 11:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS ID
06JEDDAH101MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: DENMARK BASHING
[...] (U) For the second straight week, cartoons run in Danish and Norwegian newspapers allegedly "vilifying" the Prophet Muhammad took center stage at Friday sermons in Saudi Arabia. On January 28, the Jeddah-based "Arab News" reported that "imams of mosques across the Kingdom yesterday denounced [...]
2006-02-01 14:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER PREL SA
06JEDDAH102JEDDAH JOURNAL 4: PRESERVING THE ARAB FAMILY
[...] (U) On January 23 at the French Consulate General, local consultant and business adviser to the elite, Mr. Zaher S. Al Munajjed, gave a lecture titled "Saudi Family Companies, challenges of the future," describing a theoretical model for the long term stability of a family business. Al Munajj [...]
2006-02-04 08:55:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL SA
06JEDDAH103WTO WILL BRING CHANGES. IS SAUDI ARABIA READY?
[...] SUMMARY. Lead Saudi WTO negotiator Fawaz Al-Alamy's warmly received speech to a group of American and Saudi businessmen exemplified the burgeoning interest in WTO in Saudi Arabia. Contacts with foreign concerns have also exhibited rising interest in the effects WTO will have on business in [...]
2006-02-04 09:00:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH128SAUDI YOUTH: LESSONS FROM JEDDAH'S "SHABBAB"
[...] (C) SUMMARY. After more than one year of spending time with Jeddah's "shabbab" (roughly, guys or young men),Poloff has noted some consistent themes common to many of the city's youth. Over the course of numerous road trips to places like Mecca, Medina, Taif, and al-Hada, visits to college cl [...]
2006-02-08 14:52:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA
06JEDDAH134KUWAITI CONSUL GENERAL SAYS KUWAIT HAS BEEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 18, Consul General Gfoeller and Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief paid a condolence call on Kuwaiti Consul General Ali I. Al-Nikhailan to express condolences at the recent death of the Emir Sheikh Jaber. In an accompanying conversation, Al-Nikhailan commented positively on the i [...]
2006-02-11 11:16:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KU PREL SA
06JEDDAH136JEDDAH JOURNAL 5: INDIAN INTEREST IN ARABIA,
[...] (U) Local media have reported extensively on the Saudi interest in strengthening ties with India. The recent India National Day celebration in Jeddah provided evidence that the Indian Mission reciprocates that interest. At the entrance to the celebration, guests were offered samples of India [...]
2006-02-11 12:41:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON IN KISL KWMN PREL SA
06JEDDAH149ACHIEVING DIALOGUE WITH ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 7, Consul General Gfoeller and Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief met with President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Al-Madani and senior staff members. CG delivered points in ref B. Al-Madani and his associates were cordial and forthcoming. In a wide ranging conversation Al- [...]
2006-02-15 10:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAID IZ KISL KPAL PK PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH171JEDDAH JOURNAL 6. SAUDI INVESTORS MOB BANKS, 11%
[...] (C) On the evening of February 19, several late-arriving members of the Executive Committee of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) blamed their tardiness on unexpected traffic jams in central Jeddah. Executive Council member and banker Anees Moumina announced that crowds were surroundin [...]
2006-02-26 05:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KISL KWMN PGOV PREL SA SCUL EINV
06JEDDAH172MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: FEBRUARY 17 -
[...] (U) On Friday February 17, the sermon from the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Media dealt with Islamic identity and the importance of ethics in Islam. From Mecca, Shaykh Sa'd Bin-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered a sermon regretting the current state of affairs in the Islamic world saying "Those obser [...]
2006-02-26 05:10:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH180MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA: FEBRUARY 24 -
[...] (U) On Friday February 24, in a sermon from the Holy Mosque in Mecca, Imam Shaykh Salih Bin-Muhammad al Talib delivered a sermon calling for Muslims to listen to their hearts. "The heart is the spring of feelings, source of emotions, motivator of manners, and guardian of actions. When the he [...]
2006-03-01 14:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH195JEDDAH JOURNAL 7: NEW SAUDI AMBASSADOR TO CANADA,
[...] (C) Rumors have been swirling around the Jeddah Consular Community for some weeks that Dr. Abdulaziz Al Suwaigh, presently Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),will be appointed the new Saudi Ambassador to Canada. A contact at MFA repeated the rumor to a Consulate employe [...]
2006-03-07 12:32:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KPRV PREL SA
06JEDDAH197JEDDAH ECONOMIC FORUM CONCLUDES WITH OPTIMISM
[...] SUMMARY: On February 13, the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) concluded its three-day run after a variety of speeches promoting the Saudi economy as an economy no longer based solely on oil. A recurrent subtext of the talks was the fact that Saudi Arabia was becoming integrated into a global eco [...]
2006-03-08 09:44:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH198"LA DOLCE VITA:" JEDDAWI ELITE NOSTALGIC FOR LOST
[...] (C) SUMMARY In conversations with the Consul General over the last eight months, Saudi Consulate contacts of the "baby-boomer" generation frequently reminisce about a lost heyday of openness and frivolity in Jeddah during the 1970s. These elites attribute the change to a conservative backlash [...]
2006-03-08 10:08:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH199SAUDI FOOD GIANT PIONEERS ISLAMIC BUSINESS ETHICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Savola Group, Saudi Arabia's leading foods supplier and the country's second largest industrial enterprise, has developed a code of professional ethics and values that blend Western business standards with indigenous Islamic traditions. In a time when the country's work force i [...]
2006-03-08 11:02:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH219JEDDAH JOURNAL 8: SAUDI SOCIETY MAGAZINE, NEW
[...] Recently launched society magazine "Layalina" has been causing quite a stir in Jeddah over the last few weeks. Owned by a Kuwaiti publisher, managed by a French editor, and printed in Riyadh, the magazine's glossy photos of women without abayas and head scarves is groundbreaking for the Kingd [...]
2006-03-15 11:46:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH220MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 10 AND 3:
[...] (C) On March 10 from the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani spoke to an audience of approximately 500. During the first part of his sermon, the imam talked at length about tolerance and why and how Muslims must practice it. He illustrated his homily with examples [...]
2006-03-15 13:20:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH221PREPARATIONS FOR TOURISM IN WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 26, Consulate staff met with the new General Manager of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT) in Jeddah. The General Manager offered an ambitious vision for developing tourism in Jeddah and attracting business, religious, and recreational visitors. The SCT plan [...]
2006-03-15 13:29:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALBTIO ECON KICR KISL KWMN PREL SA SENV
06JEDDAH224SAUDI ARABIA: CORPORATE DONOR TAKES PROGRESSIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables profiling community service activities funded within the Kingdom by Saudi corporations. These programs are both indicative of the country's emerging civil society and illustrative of the challenges facing Saudi Arabia, including unemploym [...]
2006-03-18 11:44:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV SA SOCI KMPI
06JEDDAH227CG'S DISCUSSION WITH ALIREZA BUSINESSMEN
[...] (C) On March 13, Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met at Xenel Industries with Executive Director Sheikh Khaled Alireza, his son and Managing Director, Aamer and General Manager and American citizen David Joury. Khaled Alireza told CG that Xenel is producing a television public service ann [...]
2006-03-21 08:20:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL SA
06JEDDAH232MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 17: AN
[...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar on March 17, Shaikh al-Qahtani delivered an aggressively anti-American sermon to an audience of approximately 500 worshipers. The sermon was the strongest condemnation of the Untied States yet delivered by this imam. He began by recounting h [...]
2006-03-22 06:43:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH233JEDDAH BOASTS FIRST MUSEUM SPECIFICALLY BUILT TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY. CG and ConOff visited the Jeddah Darah museum, home to the permanent exhibition of local artist Safeya Binzagr's artwork and her collection of Saudi cultural antiquities. From oil paintings that depict early twentieth century Saudi marriage ceremonies to lithographs that depict B [...]
2006-03-22 13:34:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALOEXC SCUL
06JEDDAH234JEDDAH BOASTS FIRST MUSEUM SPECIFICALLY BUILT TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY. CG and ConOff visited the Jeddah Darah museum, home to the permanent exhibition of local artist Safeya Binzagr's artwork and her collection of Saudi cultural antiquities. From oil paintings that depict early twentieth century Saudi marriage ceremonies to lithographs that depict B [...]
2006-03-22 13:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALOEXC SA SCUL
06JEDDAH236OIC DISMISSES RECENT BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL MEETING AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY; The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) insisted in a March 25 meeting with Consulate staff that the recent session of the Israel Boycott Office was a routine annual event, sponsored solely by the OIC and that no significant recommendations resulted. No list of repres [...]
2006-03-26 11:26:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALETTC IS KBCT KISL KPAL PREL SA
06JEDDAH237SAUDI ARABIA: GULF BUSINESSMAN SECRETLY MINISTERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A prominent businessman working for a major Gulf corporation recently confided to the Consul General that he is an ordained minister, who secretly counsels fellow Christians within Saudi Arabia. During a dinner at another Western Consul General's residence, the gentleman detailed [...]
2006-03-26 12:41:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI SA
06JEDDAH244SAUDIA TECHNICAL INSPECTION AND PROSPECTS FOR
[...] SUMMARY. This is one in a series of cables reporting on the civil aviation sector in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) technical repair facility in Jeddah was subject to an FAA re-certification inspection in mid-March. The inspectors found no serious deficiencies. Corrective ac [...]
2006-03-29 06:57:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH245MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 24:
[...] (C) On March 24, speaking from Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani harangued a congregation of more than 500 with theories blaming Iran and Shi'a for the growing sectarian violence in Iraq. He speculated that the people who demolished the Shi'ite mosque were the sa [...]
2006-03-29 07:27:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR KISL
06JEDDAH250SAUDI NON-PROFIT BRIDGES PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third in a series of cables profiling community service activities funded within the Kingdom by Saudi corporations. These programs are both indicative of the country's emerging civil society and illustrative of the challenges facing Saudi Arabia, including unemployme [...]
2006-03-29 14:31:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV SA SOCI KMPI
06JEDDAH257WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION LACKLUSTER IN JEDDAH CHAMBER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the wake of the historic November 2005 election for the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI),in which two female candidates were victorious, participation by women in JCCI affairs has been limited, and, in an April 1, 2006 election, only one woman ran [...]
2006-04-02 14:22:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KDEM KWMN PGOV SA
06JEDDAH263JEDDAH JOURNAL 9: MEDINA IMAM SUSPENDED, FASHION
[...] (C) Over the weekend rumors were circulating in Jeddah that the Imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second largest in Saudi Arabia after the Haram in Mecca, was suspended on Friday by an official decree. The rumored reason for this suspension is that in his Friday sermon, he spoke d [...]
2006-04-05 09:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH264MOSQUE SERMON FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 31: IMAMS
[...] (C) In his March 31 sermon to an audience of more than 500 at Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani returned to a subject on which he frequently speaks: the historical confrontation between Muslims and the West. He criticized Western nations for their poor treatment [...]
2006-04-05 11:06:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH265CONVERSATION WITH FINNISH AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI
[...] (C) On March 29, CG received a courtesy visit from Finnish Ambassador Martti Isoaro. Also present was Jeddah Pol/Econ Chief. The Ambassador expressed the hope that the U.S. and Finnish missions could cooperate in the Western Province and described the two major objectives of his embassy in [...]
2006-04-05 11:14:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON FI KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH267Avian Flu: Jeddah Slow on Outreach, Otherwise
[...] Summary: Jeddah Municipality has an interagency committee on avian flu, a hotline, an emergency plan, and has taken action to control backyard poultry and shop front slaughtering of live birds. They admit that their public outreach strategy is late but otherwise Jeddah appears to be taking t [...]
2006-04-05 13:21:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU SA
06JEDDAH268PERSGA Coordinating Protection of Red Sea
[...] Summary: PERSGA is a Jeddah-based intergovernmental organization that builds capacity and organizes research for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ecosystem. They are assessing land-based activities that affect the Red Sea and working with member governments on coastal zone management plans. End [...]
2006-04-05 13:37:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDSENV XF SA
06JEDDAH269Jeddah's "Perfume" Lake of Sewage
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-05 13:37:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SA
06JEDDAH270PERSGA Coordinating Protection of Red Sea
[...] Summary: PERSGA is a Jeddah-based intergovernmental organization that builds capacity and organizes research for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ecosystem. They are assessing land-based activities that affect the Red Sea and working with member governments on coastal zone management plans. End [...]
2006-04-05 13:39:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDSENV XF SA
06JEDDAH271IRANIAN DIPLOMAT CONFRONTS CONOFF AT JEDDAH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent gathering at the home of a prominent Saudi businessman, the Iranian ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Mohammed Kazem Khawansari, confronted Conoff after he was seated near him by the host. Khawansari discussed the recent publication of an [...]
2006-04-07 14:52:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SA IR IS KPAL KWBG
06JEDDAH274JEDDAH JOURNAL 10 - FEMALE MORAL POLICE, OIC-OSCE
[...] (C) The Saudi Arabian Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Note: The employees of this department are the mutawaa'in, the moral police who patrol the Kingdom's cities and towns enforcing their idea of proper Islamic behavior on the population. End Note.) has announc [...]
2006-04-09 07:17:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALELAB KISL KWMN PHUM PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH277REEF CHIEF ENVIRONMENTAL NGO ANNOUNCES FARASAN
[...] SUMMARY: On April 4, Pol/Econ Chief attended a meeting of the environmental NGO "Reef Chief" sponsored by a local business leader, Tarek Taher. Taher described his organization's structure and links to organizations and individuals and announced an expedition, conducted in cooperation with [...]
2006-04-10 06:31:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKICR KISL PREL SA SENV
06JEDDAH284BUSINESS COMMUNITY TABLE-TALK
[...] C) SUMMARY At a reception hosted by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) held at the CGR on March 29, guests commented on a variety of topics relating to local business and economic conditions. In the wake of the recent public announcement that Saudi Arabian Airline's (Saudia) privatiza [...]
2006-04-10 14:24:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL SA
06JEDDAH285THE CG IN SOUTHERN SAUDI ARABIA, PART 1 - THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On a visit to the Nejran region, Consul General, Congenoff and A/RSO met with the provincial Governor, Prince Mishael bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, for a private formal meeting in his office on March 27. Interestingly, no other representatives from the Governor,s office, including secur [...]
2006-04-11 09:24:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALBTIO ECON KISL PGOV PHUM PREL SA SOCI YM
06JEDDAH286THE CG IN SOUTHERN SAUDI ARABIA, PART II - THE
[...] (S) SUMMARY. At the conclusion of the formal meeting between the Consul General and Nejran Governor Prince Mishael bin Saud bin Abdulaziz, CG, Congenoff, and A/RSO were invited for drinks with the Governor at his home. Throughout the 2 hour-long informal meeting Prince Mishael spoke candidly [...]
2006-04-11 10:40:00Consulate JeddahSECRETEAID ECON IR KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
06JEDDAH289CORRECTION - BUSINESS COMMUNITY TABLE-TALK
[...] This is a corrected copy of reftel A. 2. C) SUMMARY At a reception hosted by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) held at the Consul General's Residence (CGR) on March 29, guests commented on a variety of topics relating to local business and economic conditions. In the wake of the r [...]
2006-04-11 11:07:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL SA
06JEDDAH293MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 7:
[...] (C) On April 7, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani devoted most of his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque to the usual religious matters. As an adherent to the rigid Hanbali School of Islam, the imam criticized the practice of celebrating the birthday of the Prophet. However, after the normal r [...]
2006-04-12 13:17:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH300JEDDAH: BRINGING HOPE TO EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS CHILDREN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief visited the Hope Center for Exceptional Needs in Jeddah on April 12. The Center is Saudi Arabia's first multilingual school for rehabilitating disabled children whose plight is often ignored by the larger society. After a tour of the faciliti [...]
2006-04-17 13:16:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SCUL SOCI SA
06JEDDAH302FAREWELL KSA: WEALTHY WESTERN WIVES' UNREALIZED
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Over the course of her tenure here in Jeddah, the Consul General has had the opportunity to speak with a number of Western expatriate women who are married to wealthy Saudi businessmen. Their story is always the same: they dream of leaving Saudi Arabia behind to settl [...]
2006-04-17 14:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI SA
06JEDDAH303OVERVIEW OF CG'S MARCH VISIT TO NEJRAN PROVINCE
[...] (C) The Consul General, ConGenOff, and A/RSO visited Nejran Province from March 26-28. Situated in the southwest of Saudi Arabia along the Yemeni border, the province is one of the least developed in the Kingdom. Yemen's cultural influence is stronger in Nejran than anywhere else in the coun [...]
2006-04-17 14:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV BEXP CVIS SCUL KISL SA
06JEDDAH304MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 14:
[...] (C) On April 14, Imam Shaykh al-Qahtani devoted most of his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar to addressing the problem of Muslims working against their own faith. He began the sermon with a condemnation of some of the comments made by the Libyan leader, Muammar al-Qadhafi, [...]
2006-04-18 08:28:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH305SAUDI ARABIA: SOP FOR QUESTIONING FEMALE CRIMINALS
[...] (C) A contact of AmConGen Jeddah reported that Saudi authorities utilize a unique and explicit set of procedures when questioning women who are suspected or accused of a crime in the Kingdom. According to the source, a woman must be accompanied by a "Mahram", or male guardian, throughout the [...]
2006-04-18 11:45:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV SCUL SOCI CASC SA
06JEDDAH308CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN JEDDAH: FROM CONGREGATION TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Consul General and ConGenOffs are conducting a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah. So far, the investigation has revealed that the Christian population in the city is large and engages in regular, private, group worship. Despite the Kingdom's strict laws pro [...]
2006-04-19 13:00:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA
06JEDDAH320MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 21, 2006
[...] (C) On Friday, April 21, at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaykh al-Qahtani reprised one of his greatest hits, a brazen political sermon delivered a few years ago which, while conceding that the United States and the West are enemies of Islam, stressed the greater danger [...]
2006-04-26 13:46:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH328RECENT POLICE ROUND-UPS HEIGHTEN ANXIETY AMONG
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Anxiety is growing in Jeddah's large Filipino population following the round-up, arrest, and interrogation this month of hundreds of Filipinos in Jeddah in connection with a serious of high-profile crimes, including the discovery of human remains in a dumpster in Jeddah and th [...]
2006-04-30 11:27:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALELAB KCRM PHUM SA SOCI
06JEDDAH329JEDDAH JOURNAL 11: JEDDAH BUSINESSMAN HONORS
[...] (U) Saudi Islamist Salman al-Ouda was the guest of honor at the April 24 "Ithnayniyya" (Monday lecture series) of Jeddah construction magnate Abdelmaksoud Khoja. The Ithnayniyya was attended by a number of mutawwa'in (members of the religious police, conspicuous with their long beards, short t [...]
2006-04-30 14:37:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALELAB KISL KWMN PREL PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH333FACING DECLINE, ONCE LARGE GREEK ORTHODOX
[...] (C) As part of the Consulate's ongoing efforts to conduct a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah, the Consul General attended a Greek Orthodox Easter liturgy (the Orthodox mass) on April 23 held at the Greek Community Compound in Jeddah (see reftels). Hosted by the Greek Consul [...]
2006-05-01 10:53:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKIRF PGOV PHUM SA SOCI
06JEDDAH336GENETIC ILLNESSES ON THE RISE IN SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Anecdotal evidence from Consulate General Jeddah's contacts indicates that the rate of genetic illness among Saudi children is on the rise, primarily due to the persistence of consanguineous marriages in the country. This persistence may be attributed to Saudi parents' efforts to [...]
2006-05-01 14:12:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV SCUL SOCI SA
06JEDDAH339MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - APRIL 28:
[...] (C) Imam Sheikh Al-Qahtani was absent from this weeks' prayers, reportedly because of his father's death. Prior to the commencement of the sermon, however, many in the congregation attributed Sheikh Al Qahtani's absence not to the death of his father but to his possible arrest by the Mabahit [...]
2006-05-03 12:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH341SETBACKS FOR SAUDI WOMEN CALL PERCEIVED REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two recent setbacks to the empowerment of women demonstrate that while this policy has received official support from the highest levels of the Saudi government, such changes face significant opposition within society at large. Last week, the Pan-Arab daily "Asharq Al Awsat" repo [...]
2006-05-08 05:02:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKDEM KWMN PGOV SA SCUL SOCI KMPI
06JEDDAH346PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN JEDDAH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 6, as part of the Consulate's ongoing efforts to conduct a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah, ConGenOff met with a Pakistani preacher who heads an all-Pakistani Evangelical church based in Jeddah. Their group has the support of the Consul General of Pakista [...]
2006-05-10 06:53:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKIRF PGOV PHUM SA SOCI
06JEDDAH352PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT ARROYO'S VISIT TO KINGDOM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Saudi government marked the state visit of Philippine President Arroyo by pardoning more than 500 Filipinos; many more than had been specifically requested by Arroyo. ConGen contacted a source in the Jeddawi Filipino community to determine if religious detainees had been i [...]
2006-05-14 07:53:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKIRF KISL PGOV PHUM RP SA SOCI
06JEDDAH356ARABIC LANGUAGE WEB-SITE AL SAHAT PRESENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Within hours of the May 12 drive-by shooting at ConGen Jeddah, the Arabic language web-site Al Sahat carried a brief biography of the suspect and described him as a psychopath. By May 14, this web-page had been amended with additional information on the suspect, including a ref [...]
2006-05-15 05:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA SOCI
06JEDDAH357MOSQUE SERMONS FORM SAUDI ARABIA - MAY 5:
[...] (C) On May 5, after a week's absence due to the death of his father, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani returned to Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar with a fiery sermon against immorality and in support of Palestinians. His sermon began with a condemnation of the decadence evident in the Musli [...]
2006-05-15 11:21:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH366OIC AMBASSADOR SURPRISED AT INTEREST IN ANNUAL
[...] (C) In a May 14 telephone conversation with Conoff, Ambassador Salem Al Honi, High Commissioner of the Islamic Boycott Office at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),emphasized the routine nature of the Office's March 2006 meeting of OIC representatives and expressed his surprise [...]
2006-05-17 13:53:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KPAL PGOV PREL
06JEDDAH368MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA MAY 12:
[...] (C) For the second consecutive week, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani lectured the congregation at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar about the dangers associated with technology and the unpardonable suffering of the Palestinians. His sermon began by denouncing rumors, but then disting [...]
2006-05-20 07:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH372INTERNAL SAG RIVALRIES ON CLOSING PALESTINE STREET
[...] (S) SUMMARY: As part of his research for a SAG-commissioned report on improving the issuance of US visas to Saudi nationals, Nawaf Al Obeid, an advisor to Saudi Ambassador to the US Turki bin Feisal Al Saud, met with the Consul General and Conoff on May 17. The CG emphasized that though mino [...]
2006-05-20 13:51:00Consulate JeddahSECRETCMGT CVIS PGOV PREL SA PTER ASEC ABLD AMGT
06JEDDAH374AL-SAHAT: AFTER BRIEF SHUTDOWN, ACCUSATIONS THAT
[...] SUMMARY. Al-Sahat, a popular Arabic-language website frequently denounced as extremist, mysteriously went offline from April 18 to 22, sparking rumors the Saudi government had caused the site to be shut down. ConGen Jeddah and its officers are regular subjects of commentary, criticism, and [...]
2006-05-21 08:28:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH378JEDDAH JOURNAL 12: BINLADEN GROUP ARRANGES HASTY
[...] (C) The Saudi construction giant the Binladen Group recently dispatched three Dutch engineers, two Christians and an atheist, to Cairo for expeditious conversion to Islam. According to a Consulate contact who works for the Group, the engineers were urgently needed to work on the Jabal Omar [...]
2006-05-22 13:16:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALELAB KISL KJUS KWMN PGOV PHUM SA SMIG SOCI
06JEDDAH379CONVERSATION WITH TABUK GOVERNOR: "ROAD MAP,"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 16, the Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met Prince Fahad, Governor of Tabuk. In a wide-ranging discussion of Middle Eastern and domestic conditions, Prince Fahad singled out the Palestinian problem as the most critical issue and a fundamental cause of extremism in the [...]
2006-05-22 13:51:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KPAL KWMN PREL PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH380COLLEGE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS RIFTS ON WOMEN'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Consul General's May 6 speech and participation in an Arabic-language roundtable at one of Jeddah's most prominent women's colleges highlighted both the increased public attention paid to promoting women's employment and the lingering controversy over such moves. Though gene [...]
2006-05-22 14:09:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PGOV PHUM SA SOCI
06JEDDAH381JEDDAH BUSINESSMAN: IRAN ESTABLISHING GRASSROOTS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with ConGenoff, a Jeddah businessman and former International Visitors Program participant claimed that he had been approached by representatives of the Iranian government to participate in a new strategic media initiative to foment anti-US sentiment in th [...]
2006-05-23 01:37:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PINR PREL PROP PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH382RESOLUTION OF JEDDAH REFUGE CASE HIGHLIGHTS
[...] SUMMARY: Following the visit of A/S Harty to Saudi Arabia on May 13 and 14, high-level SAG attention to the refuge case of Rema Al Said, which had been languishing for over three months, resulted in a sudden flurry of negotiations between the Mission and representatives from the Interministeri [...]
2006-05-23 10:06:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PHUM SA
06JEDDAH384TABUK SAUDI ARABIA: NORTHERN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
[...] SUMMARY: On May 16, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief met with the Board of Directors of the Tabuk Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Manager of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT). The Board enthusiastically promoted the agricultural and industrial developments in the region and express [...]
2006-05-23 12:55:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDBTIO EAGR ECON EIND KISL PREL SA SCUL SENV
06JEDDAH385OBSERVATIONS ON THE NORTHERN ARABIAN CITY OF TABUK
[...] SUMMARY: During a visit to Tabuk on May 16, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief were able to meet with the Governor and leading members of the Tabuk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (reftels). The trip included a tour of the city of Tabuk which provided a chance to form some general impressions. Tabu [...]
2006-05-23 14:43:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH387OIC OFFICIAL: LIBYANS AND SYRIANS BEHIND FEEBLE
[...] (C) In a May 23 discussion with ConGenOff at a reception sponsored by Post, Bilal K. Sasso, head of protocol and public relations at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC),attributed the recent but feeble attempt to rejuvenate the Israel Boycott Office to pressure from the Libyan a [...]
2006-05-24 13:01:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON IS KISL KPAL PGOV PREL SA
06JEDDAH389MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA, MAY 19: EASTERN
[...] (C) On May 19, Sahikh Mohammad al-Qahtani spoke at the Imam Ahmad bin Habal Mosque in al-Khobar to a congregation of more than 500 worshippers. NOTE: In the opinion of our source, this was one of the strongest sermons the imam has delivered. It was Saudi-specific, and the imam explicitly [...]
2006-05-24 13:38:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH396SAUDIA PRIVATIZATION ACCELERATED TO QUIET JUMPY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. This is one of a series of cables addressing developments in the civil aviation sector in Saudi Arabia. In private conversations, the director of the medical staff of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) announced that the company had just received an order from the King to prepare [...]
2006-05-30 14:29:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA
06JEDDAH399MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA, MAY 26: EASTERN
[...] (C) Speaking at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Al-Khobar on May 26, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani devoted both his sermons solely to an indictment of Shi'a for what he perceives is their unmitigated hostility toward all things Sunni and making common cause with the West in its war against S [...]
2006-05-31 13:17:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH401SAG PUNISHES POPULAR CONSERVATIVE CLERIC FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Jeddah sheikh Abdullah Fadaaq continues to hold a weekly Sufi majlis, despite SAG efforts last year to shut it down. In late April, the popular conservative Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah attended the majlis, after which the Ministry of Islamic Affairs barred him from participatin [...]
2006-06-03 08:10:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PHUM SA
06JEDDAH407JEDDAH JOURNAL 13: NEW DIRECTOR FOR SAUDIA;
[...] (U) On the morning of June 7, Saudi media carried a report that by Royal Decree Khaled Abdullah Al-Mulhim, who was Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Telecom Company until February, has been named the new Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia). Mulhim has an engineering degree fro [...]
2006-06-07 12:54:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SENV SOCI TBIO
06JEDDAH408MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 2: EASTERN
[...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani kept his promise of last week (reftel) and gave a second sermon condemning Shi'as as unworthy to be called Muslims and prejudiced against Sunnis. However, in the opinion of the source, the mood of this speech was [...]
2006-06-07 12:55:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH412MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 9: AL-KHOBAR
[...] (C) This week, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani devoted his sermon at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar to a wide-ranging attack on the United States and its Western cohorts for their efforts to destroy Islam. The sermon began with a resum of the Danish Cartoon controversy and his char [...]
2006-06-12 10:19:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH425ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMENTS AT MAY BUSINESS
[...] SUMMARY. Business leaders attending a monthly speech sponsored by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) maintain their optimism for the Saudi economy. They are, however, cautious when commenting on the local stock exchange. Their concern is that the market is still grossly overvalued. [...]
2006-06-17 14:08:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH427JEDDAH JOURNAL 14: COMMOTION IN JCCI BOARDROOM;
[...] (C) Contacts have informed the Consulate and recent news reports have confirmed that a substantial majority of the Board of Directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry have expressed opposition to Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehya Al Moallemi. Over the past few weeks, press repo [...]
2006-06-20 06:01:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL PTER SA SOCI
06JEDDAH430CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN SAUDI ARABIA: ETHIOPIAN &
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Consul General and ConGenOffs are conducting a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah (reftel). Recently, AmConGen Jeddah learned that four Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians were arrested and detained on June 9 when they were worshipping at "Faith Rhema Church", a [...]
2006-06-20 13:18:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF SA
06JEDDAH432MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 16:
[...] (C) In contrast to the past few sermons in which he has delivered strident lectures tinged with political and sectarian meaning, on June 16, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani delivered a sermon from his pulpit at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar, applauded by our source, censuring Musli [...]
2006-06-21 10:44:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH436MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 23: EASTERN
[...] (C) On June 23, speaking at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal mosque in al-Khobar, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani fulminated against a "Fifth Column within Islam." This is a subject he has preached on before. In his sermon, al-Qahtani attacked "secularists and hypocrites" who either wittingly or unwittin [...]
2006-07-01 07:30:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH437JEDDAH MAYOR PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLANS; CONSUL
[...] SUMMARY: On June 19, the Consul General, Pol/Econ Chief, Commercial Officer , PolOff and EconOff attended the June General Meeting of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ). The keynote speaker was Mayor of Jeddah, Adel Fakeih who described the city's ambitious new redevelopment plan to tr [...]
2006-07-01 07:30:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH446A GRAND VISION FOR JCCI WOMEN'S CENTER
[...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Mrs. Oberwetter and Consulate General officers, the new director of the JCCI's women's center outlined her plan to expand the center's services and role in the development of Saudi women. Moving training and placement to other facilities, the women's center [...]
2006-07-03 11:06:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB KWMN PINR SA
06JEDDAH449AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES IRAN, DETAINEES AND
[...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Minister 2. (S) Summary: During their June 27 meeting, Ambassador to Iraq Z [...]
2006-07-05 04:04:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH450AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH SAUDI CROWN PRINCE
[...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: Meeting with King Abdullah U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ King Abdullah Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Miister Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Sec [...]
2006-07-05 04:04:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH451MORSELS FROM THE BUSINESS BREAKFAST TABLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In conversations at the June meeting of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ),one American businessman admitted that he had lost confidence in the bearish Saudi stock market. An American financial consultant noted that improved adherence to principles of corporate governanc [...]
2006-07-05 07:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL PGOV PREL SA
06JEDDAH452NEW SAUDIA DIRECTOR GENERAL EXPOUNDS ON FUTURE OF
[...] This is one of a series of cables relating to the civil aviation sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 2. SUMMARY: On June 25, Pol/Econ Chief and Jeddah Commercial Officer met the newly appointed Director General of Saudi Arabia Airlines (Saudia),Khalid Almolhem. He had earlier presid [...]
2006-07-05 07:43:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL PGOV PREL SA
06JEDDAH453JEDDAH JOURNAL 15: JCCI TURMOIL ENDS; CONVICTION
[...] (U) Ending several months of controversy (reftel),the Consulate learned from a contact on July 1, that embattled Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehia Al-Moallemi, had resigned, formally citing a disagreement over management style with the Board as [...]
2006-07-05 07:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH454A WOMAN'S VIEW ON BEING A LAWYER IN SAUDI ARABIA
[...] SUMMARY: Recent press reports that the Saudi Ministry of Justice is considering allowing women to become fully licensed lawyers and judges have raised the hopes of women who are already working as legal consultants in the Kingdom. One female legal consultant in Jeddah told PolOff that she [...]
2006-07-05 09:07:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH455MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JUNE 30: EASTERN
[...] (C) In a remarkable change from his critical sermons of preceding weeks, Imam Mohammad al-Qahtani used his sermon t the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque at al-Khobar o praise the Saudi government for providing securty, political stbility and promoting the welfar of the people. The lesson began w [...]
2006-07-08 11:50:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH458SCT SETTING THE STAGE FOR SAUDI'S TOURISM FUTURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Jeddah's new Director General of the SCT outlined his plan for tourism development in Jeddah and Kingdom-wide with Consulate General officers. The Director General is setting up the tourism sector's infrastructure by centering on critical topics such as IT development and adaptin [...]
2006-07-08 12:24:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALBTIO ECON PINR SA
06JEDDAH459WAMY OFFICIAL UPSET ABOUT FUNDING AND CRITICAL OF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-08 14:19:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH460SAUDI LAWYER CASTS DIM HOPE FOR REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ConGenOffs met with a prominent Saudi lawyer who cast a very dim light on social reforms underway in the Kingdom. He explained that multi-level resistance to reform, including opposition from within the King's inner circle, insufficient public infrastructure, and general attitude [...]
2006-07-08 14:26:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH466GUARDED OPINION OF CAPABILITIES OF OIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An AmCit employee of the Islamic Development Bank dismissed the Organization of the Islamic Conference as an organization that has no credibility with its members or the rest of the international community. He described the OIC as little more than a forum for Arab outrage. He [...]
2006-07-10 13:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH467WESTERN DIPLOMAT IN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC
[...] SUMMARY: During a visit to a small town in the Jeddah Consular District, a female ConGenOff decided to experience first hand what it was like to wear the most conservative type of Muslim women's clothing. The five-piece ensemble proved difficult to put on and extremely uncomfortable to wear. [...]
2006-07-10 13:25:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PGOV PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH469CG MEETS NEW JAPANESE CONSUL GENERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 8, the Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met the new Japanese Consul General in Jeddah. His primary objective is to promote Japanese business activities in western Saudi Arabia. As part of his duties, he will monitor and facilitate a major Saudi-Japanese petrochemical [...]
2006-07-11 10:31:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON JA KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH470JEDDAH'S FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS
[...] (U) Summary. Jeddah's AIDS program coordinator described the HIV/AIDS problem and her efforts to improve the situation with awareness campaigns and treatment facilities for the infected. While Saudi Arabia's confirmed infection rate is relatively low, she is focused on getting more people tes [...]
2006-07-11 10:31:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKHIV KWMN PINR SA SOCI
06JEDDAH471MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JULY 7: EASTERN
[...] (C) Imam Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani returned to provocative matters for his sermons at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar on July 7. In the first part of his lesson, al-Qahtani talked about jihad, explaining that the "Grand Jihad" is the highest form of struggle "and it's not nece [...]
2006-07-12 07:22:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH472LAYALINA: SHOWING THE SOCIAL SIDE OF SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (U) Since the December 2005 debut of Layalina magazine in Saudi Arabia, the publication has stretched the limits of Saudi culture (reftel). The magazine regularly features Saudis and foreigners in the social scene at restaurants and events and a large section on the men's side of weddings. Ov [...]
2006-07-12 07:30:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDPINR SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH474POSITIVE FIRST MEETING WITH NEW OIC DIRECTOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General of Political Affairs held a positive introductory meeting with ConGenOffs. He outlined the OIC's 10-year action plan that emerged from the organization's extraordinary summit held in Mecca in December 2005, and no [...]
2006-07-12 12:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI TSPL
06JEDDAH475FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES TEHRAN MEETING OF IRAQ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JULY 11, THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER SAUD A-FAISAL AND DISCUSSED THE RECENT TEHRAN MEETING OF THE IRAQ NEIGHBORS GROUP AND THE IMPENDING INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ CONFERENCE. IN TEHRAN, THE "FRANK" MULTILATERAL DISCUSSIONS ADDRESSED A VARIETY OF PRACT [...]
2006-07-12 13:14:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL KPAL PTER SA
06JEDDAH476JEDDAH JOURNAL 16: INTERNET POSTINGS; MUTAWAA;
[...] (U) On July 12, an anonymous source posted a message on the fundamentalist Al Saha website that called for a "Holocaust" type event that would "burn" Minister of Culture and Information Iyad Madani, Minister of Labor Ghazi al-Qusaybi, and prominent writer Turki Al Hamad. Using easily recogni [...]
2006-07-12 14:25:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH477CORRECTED COPY--FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES TEHRAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 11, the Ambassador met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud a-Faisal and discussed the recent Tehran meeting of the Iraq Neighbor's Group and the impending International Compact for Iraq Conference. In Tehran, the "frank" multilateral discussions addressed a variety of prac [...]
2006-07-13 02:27:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH478INTERNET SHOWING GRASSROOTS DISSENTION ABOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Public opinion is divided regarding the July 14 Saudi Press Agency statement on the situation in Lebanon. While local newspapers have reported the government line, websites show a wide variety of opinions that both support and attack the position. Those who support the statement genera [...]
2006-07-15 14:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH481AMCIT REITERATES CONCERNS ABOUT SAUDI DEFENSE
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: A U.S. citizen, who promotes American defense interests in the Kingdom, reported on a meeting he held with his SAG contact who participated in the SAG-French meeting in June about upcoming defense contracts. The AmCit told the Consul General on July 9 that the French are using [...]
2006-07-16 13:18:00Consulate JeddahSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MCAP KCOR PGOV PINR
06JEDDAH483SAGIA STREAMLINIING THE INVESTMENT PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. On June 28 Pol/EconOffs met Mr. Mohammed Al Khosheim, Director General of the Saudi Arabia Investment Authority (SAGIA) in Jeddah. Al Khosheim described the type of investors coming to Jeddah and the process they have to complete in order to operate here. Al Khosheim touts the d [...]
2006-07-18 09:23:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALBTIO ECON ETRD PINR
06JEDDAH484UMM AL-QURA DEAN PUSHING FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting in Jeddah with the dean of the College of Education at Umm Al-Qura University (UAQU) located in Mecca, ConGenOffs discussed factors affecting the higher education of young men and women, including the increased demand for university spots, accreditation, and studen [...]
2006-07-18 14:36:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA
06JEDDAH486MINISTER OF LABOR TELLS RELIGIOUS POLICE ONLY MOL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The religious police, or Mutawwa denied that it was responsible for the recent firing of 69 saleswomen at cosmetic and lingerie department stores in Jeddah. The Mutawwa ordered the stores closed after accusing the saleswomen of mingling with men, and criticized them for not coveri [...]
2006-07-19 14:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SA KISL
06JEDDAH487JULY 14 FRIDAY SERMONS AVERT STRONG WORDS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mecca sermons focused on the need for brotherhood amongst all Muslims and its importance in combating the enemies of religion. The Medina sermons addressed the importance of optimism in times of crisis and made mention of the tyranny of the Jews over Palestine, but made no mentio [...]
2006-07-20 09:38:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL SA PREL PGOV
06JEDDAH493ISLAMIC SCHOLAR CALLS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff held a productive discussion about Islam and the need for greater dialogue with Dr. Hamid Al-Rifaie, an internationally recognized religious scholar who lives in Jeddah. He said that he is focused on opening stable channels of communication that allow Muslims to talk am [...]
2006-07-24 11:29:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH494A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS REGISTRATION IN JEDDAH
[...] (U) On July 10 Pol/EconOffs and FCSOffs met Mr. Muhammad Atiq Al Harby, Director General of the Ministry of Commerce in Jeddah. During the brief meeting Al Harby gave an outline of the procedures for women to register their businesses in Jeddah. The Ministry's female section is only one year [...]
2006-07-25 05:22:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KWMN PINR SA PGOV
06JEDDAH495YOUNG SAUDI WOMEN SPEAK: THEIR VIEW OF THE FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary. In a discussion with Saudi college-aged women, EconOff learned about some of the issues confronting young females in Jeddah, what concerns they have for the future, and their thoughts about their portrayal in the West. As Saudi society undergoes numerous changes, young Saudi wome [...]
2006-07-25 05:22:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PINR SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH496A GLIMPSE INTO JEDDAH'S FOREIGN WORKER POPULATIONS
[...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with the labor offices of Saudi Arabia's major labor source Consulates, EconOff discussed the issues facing foreign worker populations and what the representative Consulates General do to help their citizens. The labor officers all say salary payment and [...]
2006-07-25 05:23:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB PHUM PINR SA
06JEDDAH498ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK ON AID TO IRAQ AND GAZA
[...] On July 22, Econ Counselor met with two senior Islamic Development Bank officials in Jeddah. They are Amadou Boubacar Cisse (VP for Operations) and Rami Ahmad (Deputy Director of Operations in charge of Middle East projects). Cisse briefed on Iraq, Gaza and more generally on how the IDB make [...]
2006-07-25 10:57:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON IZ KPAL PREL SA
06JEDDAH499NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON LEADERSHIP CHANGE AT JEDDAH
[...] (U) Summary: During a meeting with the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) Project Manager, CG and Commercial Attach learned of new developments at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI),most importantly, additional factors contributing to the removal of the Chairman. The recent moves [...]
2006-07-25 10:58:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SA
06JEDDAH505HEJAZI SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON RELIGION AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Consul General and ConGenOffs reached out to religious scholars, including the liberal religious scholar Dr. Sami M. Angawi, in Jeddah to hear their views on the status of Islam in the Kingdom and how it is practiced in the nation's traditionally diverse Hejaz region. The scholars focu [...]
2006-07-29 04:05:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH511SAUD AL-FAISAL ASKS THE US TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE
[...] (C) FM Saud al-Faisal summoned the Ambassador from Riyadh to Jeddah for a one-on-one late in the evening of July 30 to urge the Secretary to call for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In a soft-mannered but insistent and blunt approach, Prince Saud made the following points: -- "We understand the concern wi [...]
2006-07-30 21:46:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALIS IZ LE PINS PREL SA
06JEDDAH513 CHANGES AFOOT AT THE JEDDAH ECONOMIC FORUM
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 23 Consul General (CG) and Commercial Attache (CA) met the new Chairman and the Project Manager of the Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF). The CG learned of the ongoing changes at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI),the Kingdom's plans to increase tourism and th [...]
2006-07-31 04:38:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL SA
06JEDDAH514MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA JULY 28: EASTERN
[...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar on July 28, Imam Shaikh Mohammed al-Qahtani offered a sermon that left our source confused and uncertain as to the imam's intent. The imam, who is notorious for attacking followers of all but the Hanbali school of Islamic thought as counte [...]
2006-08-02 08:37:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH520JEDDAH JOURNAL 17: ISLAMIC FORUM MEETING CANCELED
[...] (C) On August 1, the Consulate General received a fax from the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue informing us that our request for a meeting could not be honored at this time, because all of their staff and resources were needed to cope with the crisis in Lebanon. INVESTORS LOBBY GOV [...]
2006-08-07 07:21:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH531LABOR MINISTER DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS,
[...] (C) Summary: On August 7, Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi al-Qusaibi described the SAG's efforts against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) to the Ambassador. Minister al-Qusaibi agreed that this was a serious issue for the SAG, and he outlined the steps that it is taking, adding that Saudi Arabia must m [...]
2006-08-09 11:14:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV SA
06JEDDAH532MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 4: OUTRAGE
[...] Lebanon and the "West's war against Muslims" dominated the angry sermon of Imam Sheikh Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudays at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The imam called for a cease-fire in Lebanon and pleaded for support for the women, children and old people who have been harmed by the war. In a lit [...]
2006-08-09 12:18:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH535CONSUL GENERAL AND NEW FOREIGN MINISTRY DIRECTOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 9, the CG and Pol/Econ Chief made a courtesy call on Ambassador Mohammed Tayyeb, the newly appointed Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for the Mecca Region. The Director General offered the Ministry's support in developing a New Consulate Comp [...]
2006-08-12 09:50:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALABLD AMGT KISL OFDP PREL SA
06JEDDAH540AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH NEW CHAIRMAN OF
[...] SUMMARY: On August 8, the Ambassador and staff met the new Chairman and Board members of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI). The Chairman gave an optimistic assessment of the Saudi economy. He enumerated a number of development projects in Jeddah and around the Kingdom, inc [...]
2006-08-14 12:58:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALBTIO ECON EPET KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH541AMBASSADOR SPEAKS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF AMERICAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 9, the Ambassador breakfasted with three members of the American business community. All three reported that Lebanon was creating wide-spread hostility towards the United States among the Saudi population, both Sunnis and Shi'as. A Raytheon official reported a promis [...]
2006-08-14 14:03:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH542LEBANON: UNSC 1701 DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (C) Ambassador Oberwetter delivered the text of UNSC 1701 to FM Saud al-Faisal on August 15. The FM said that the most recent statements from the Israeli government and Hizballah "do not bode well for the future" and he cast his doubts on the ceasefire lasting. He said that disarming Hizballah and [...]
2006-08-15 18:03:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALIS PREL PTER MOPS
06JEDDAH545AMBASSADOR URGES SAG TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA'S UNSC
[...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter renewed USG concerns with Venezuela's candidacy for Latin America's open UNSC seat during an August 15 meeting with FM Saud al-Faisal. The Ambassador raised Ref A points, adding that President Chavez had vowed to support Iran "at any time and under any conditions" d [...]
2006-08-16 06:56:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPREL UNSC GT VE SA
06JEDDAH547MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 11:
[...] (C) The war between Islam and the West once again inspired the sermon from the Grand Mosque in Mecca. However, this week, Imam Sheikh Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed al Talib's complaints extended far beyond Lebanon and suggest a growing hostility to Muslim involvement in the "Western-dominated" inte [...]
2006-08-19 04:55:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH548AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 8, Ambassador Oberwetter led a group to met Islamic Development Bank (IDB) President Al-Madani. The Ambassador apprised Al-Madani of the forthcoming visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmit to discuss U.S. and potential IDB involvement in the reconstruction of Lebano [...]
2006-08-19 06:24:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN IZ KISL LE PREL SA
06JEDDAH557NEW "KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY" ON THE RED SEA:
[...] (C) Summary: Among the Saudi Government's many new megaprojects, the planned $26.7 billion "King Abdullah Economic City" has attracted the most media and investor attention. Its organizer, Saudi General Investment Chairman Amr Dabbagh, is pushing ahead. In a recent meeting, CG and EconCoun [...]
2006-08-23 13:09:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON PREL SA
06JEDDAH558STUDENT VISAS: AMB ASKS FOR LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP
[...] (C) Ambassador Oberwetter informed Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on August 22 that the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) had not yet provided the Embassy with lists of all Saudi students who receive scholarships to study in the U.S. The Ambassador raised our concerns with counterfeit schola [...]
2006-08-23 14:00:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PINS KCSY SA
06JEDDAH559FM'S VIEWS ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter delivered Reftel points on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on August 21. The Ambassador emphasized tha the HRC has not taken a balanced approach to theIsrael-Hizballah conflict and he questioned why he Council spoke out so strongly agai [...]
2006-08-23 14:29:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPHUM PREL SA XF
06JEDDAH567MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 18: MECCA
[...] (U) Once again the sermon from the Grand Mosque in Mecca advocated that the Ummah unite to confront a nebulous enemy, which inevitably comes to mean the non-Muslim world. In a strident sermon, Imam Sheikh Dr. Saud Bin Ibrahim al-Sheraim, warned his listeners, "this age of materialistic civil [...]
2006-08-26 07:44:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH576MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA AUGUST 25: MECCA
[...] (U) At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Imam Sheikh Salah bin Mohammed Aal Talib lectured the worshipers on preparations for Doomsday. Fortunately, in contrast to recent sermons, today's sermon related to the theological Day of Judgment rather than to Islam's conflicts with the "other." The imam [...]
2006-08-30 11:50:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH578 LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
[...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission to Secretary Rice: 2. Begin text: [Page 1] Organization of the Islamic Conference The Secretary General OIC/SG-1/2006 Jeddah 15, August 2006 Exce [...]
2006-09-03 13:12:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH582 LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC
[...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter and declarations via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission To Secretary Rice. 2. The letter to Secretary Rice presents the Declaration on the Situation in Lebanon and the Declaration on the Situation [...]
2006-09-04 04:40:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH583 LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
[...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission to Secretary Rice: 2. Begin text: [Page 1] Organization of the Islamic Conference The Secretary General OIC/SG-1/2006 04045 Jeddah 03, September 200 [...]
2006-09-04 13:42:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH586CG GFOELLER RECEIVES PETITION FROM SAUDI WOMEN TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 18th, CG Gfoeller received an e-mailed draft petition from prominent Saudi women calling for a cessation of Israeli attacks in both Lebanon and Palestine. The petition stated that Israeli interference in Lebanon and Palestine has created regional instability and has dep [...]
2006-09-05 08:20:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDIS KISL KPAO KWMN LE OPRC PHUM PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH596JEDDAH JOURNAL 18: OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN;
[...] The English-language Saudi Gazette reported today on another clash between historic Saudi custom and the demands of a modern economy. Saudi women are complaining that a law in force since 1965 prohibits them from obtaining licenses to operate beauty shops, but recent efforts to promote busine [...]
2006-09-09 09:18:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH597MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA SEPTEMBER 1:
[...] The sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 1 was delivered by Dr. Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd, the Chairman of the Shura Council, which advises the King. The main idea in the sermon was that of a "new dawn" for the Arab and Islamic nation. He remarked that the results of the recen [...]
2006-09-09 10:29:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH598SAUDI ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: ENVIRONMENTAL
[...] SUMMARY: Pol/Econ Chief met with the director of the newly registered Saudi Environmental Association. The organization will promote environmental issues in planing and decision-making at all levels of Saudi government. Within its mandate, the organization will accept and investigate envir [...]
2006-09-09 14:49:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON KISL PGOV PREL SA SENV SOCI
06JEDDAH606SEX IN SAUDI ARABIA - CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING
[...] (U) Recently, Pol-Econoff spoke with a number of young men and women in Saudi Arabia. In one encounter, with a 29 year old man named Abdul, Pol-Econoff learned about the Saudi social scene. As both are roughly the same age, they began to speak about what guys that age tend to speak about, nam [...]
2006-09-11 16:37:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH614AMBASSADOR BRIEFED ON SAUDIA FUTURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10, the Ambassador and Consulate General Jeddah, and FCS staff met the New Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) and his senior staff. The Director General offered an optimistic assessment of the airline's future. Privatization is planned over the nex [...]
2006-09-18 04:30:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BTIO EAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA
06JEDDAH623SEX IN SAUDI ARABIA - CLOAK AND DAGGER DATING
[...] (S) Recently, Pol-Econoff spoke with a number of young men and women in Saudi Arabia. In one encounter, with a 29 year old man named Abdul, Pol-Econoff learned about the Saudi social scene. As both are roughly the same age, they began to speak about what guys that age tend to speak about, nam [...]
2006-09-24 15:07:00Consulate JeddahSECRETKISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH625YOUNG PRESIDENTS SPEAK THEIR MINDS TO AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with several members of the Saudi chapter of the Young President's Organization (YPO) on August 20. The group said Israel,s actions in Lebanon were disproportionate, and claimed there is growing anti-US sentiment in the Kingdom and increasing fears of Iran. [...]
2006-09-25 12:40:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR SA ECON KISL
06JEDDAH636AMBASSADOR MET WITH GENERAL AUTHORITY OF CIVIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Oberwetter met with the President Eng. Abdullah M. Nour Rehaimi and several Vice Presidents of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in Jeddah on August 18 to discuss GACA's plans for deregulation and expansion in Saudi Arabia. Both sides expressed an interest [...]
2006-10-04 12:09:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BTIO EAIR ECON KISL KPRV SA
06JEDDAH643IIRO SECRETARY-GENERAL TALKS OF SAUDI PROGRAMS AND
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting at the headquarters of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) on September 18, Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha told PolOffs that IIRO headquarters in Jeddah has administrative and budgetary control of all 28 country branches and receives no [...]
2006-10-09 07:52:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06JEDDAH645LETTER FROM OIC SECGEN REGARDING "DESECRATION OF
[...] (U) The following letter, dated October 5, 2006, was delivered to AMCON Jeddah. It is from the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to the Secretary of State, and condemns the alleged destruction of SIPDIS the cemetery of Mamella, an ancient Muslim cemetery, [...]
2006-10-10 12:12:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL OPDC PREL SA
06JEDDAH646MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA SEPTEMBER 15:
[...] (C) Shaykh Saud Ibn-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 15. The sermon focused on the idea that Muslims should give sincere advice. The imam said, "One meets three types of people; a type that praises him, a type that criticizes him, and a type t [...]
2006-10-10 13:01:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH658VISITING DESK OFFICER MET WITH OIC DG OF POLITICAL
[...] (C) Poloff and visiting NEA/ARP Desk Officer met with Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mahdy Fathallah, on October 10. Fathallah laid out the reasons why the U.S. would benefit from closer relations with the OIC. He pointed to the pot [...]
2006-10-16 11:58:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PINR PREL SA
06JEDDAH659MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 22:
[...] (C) Shaykh Usamah bin-Abdallah Khayyat delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 22. The imam condemned statements made against Islam without mentioning Pope Benedict XVI by name. The sermon opposed the view that Islam has been spread through violence. The imam said, " [...]
2006-10-16 12:03:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH664MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 29:
[...] (C) Shaykh Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 29. The sermon largely dealt with the significance of Ramadan for piety and purification of the soul. The imam added that Ramadan has come "while our nation is unaware of the plotting and challe [...]
2006-10-18 04:07:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH665MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 6: MECCA,
[...] (C) Shaykh Saud Ibn-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered the sermon in the at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on October 6. The sermon focused on the stories in the Koran, especially the Surah of Hud, which speaks of ancient communities. The imam said, "The Islamic nation is in dire need to ponder the Ko [...]
2006-10-18 04:07:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH673MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 13:
[...] (C) Sheikh Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd delivered the sermon in Mecca on October 13. He emphasized the holiness of the last ten nights of Ramadan, especially the Night of Power. The imam urged Muslims to make the best of Ramadan by praying, reading the Koran, and giving charity. In the sec [...]
2006-10-28 07:03:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH694MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, OCTOBER 27:
[...] (C) Sheikh Dr. Usamah Abdallah al-Khayyat delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on October 27. He said that all people seek a happy life, and that "everyone knows that a heart free of grudges is the means to achieve happiness and success. If hostility, which stems from grudges, [...]
2006-11-06 12:34:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH700TALES OF A PRINCE: CG MEETS WITH GOVERNOR OF
[...] (S) On November 7 the CG met with a prominent Western businessman who is close to the Governor of Asir, Prince Khalid bin Faisal. The businessman is known as a "fixer" for Prince Khalid. During their conversation, he recounted to the CG a number of his interactions with the Prince. 2. (S) Their f [...]
2006-11-08 14:37:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PINR SCUL
06JEDDAH765MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, DECEMBER 15:
[...] (C) Sheikh Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd delivered the sermon in Mecca on December 15. He began by encouraging Muslims to follow Allah and participate in the Hajj. The imam continued, "Muslims are feeling that their religion is being exposed to fierce onslaught. They talk about this onslau [...]
2006-12-19 14:05:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH769IRF OFFICER MEETS WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS
[...] (S) Summary. In a visit to Jeddah and Dhahran, DRL/IRF officer Kate Lurie met with various leaders of the Christian communities. In Jeddah, Lurie and Poloff held several meetings with leaders of Christian congregations. In Dhahran, Lurie met with three Americans, two Protestants and one Ca [...]
2006-12-19 15:56:00Consulate JeddahSECRETKIRF SOCI SA
06JEDDAH770GACA'S NEED FOR FAA ASSISTANCE IN ITS NEW AGE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (U) Summary. EconOff from Riyadh and Jeddah Pol-Econ Chief met with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) to follow up on a June 2006 meeting with the Ambassador regarding GACA's need for regulatory training, update [...]
2006-12-20 06:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON ETRD PGOV SA
06JEDDAH86NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CONSUL GENERAL SPEAKS OF TRADE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At an introductory meeting on January 29, new South African Consul General Mahdi Basadien described his mission to promote South African trade, particularly in mining and defense. His post also supports some 27,000 South Africans who travel to Saudi Arabia each year on pilgrimag [...]
2006-01-30 09:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALETRD IR KISL KNNP PARM PREL SA SF
06JEDDAH98YOUNGEST MEMBER OF CHINA DELEGATION PROVIDES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff met on January 29 the youngest member of the delegation of Saudi private citizens that accompanied King Abdullah on his much-heralded recent visit to China. Sultan al-Attar, who turned 25 on the trip, was effusive in his praise for King Abdullah, highlighting the King's abi [...]
2006-02-01 14:26:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER PREL SA
06JEDDAH99"REAL PEOPLE TOUR": STUDENTS PROVIDE TOUR OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As Post previously reported, Poloff visited on January 22 the central campus of Um al-Qura University, known as a center of Islamic learning in the Kingdom, in the heart of the Islamic holy city of Mecca and met with University Rector Dr. Nasir A. al-Saleh and several administrat [...]
2006-02-01 14:34:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA
06JERUSALEM1004EREKAT ON JERICHO DEMARCHE, USG ASSISTANCE, AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PLO Chief Negotiator and PLC member Sa,eb Erekat told Consul General during a March 9 meeting that he feared the withdrawal of U.S./U.K. Jericho Monitoring Mission (JMM) personnel would negatively impact civilians living in Jericho if the GOI takes military action against the six [...]
2006-03-10 15:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV IS PREL PTER
06JERUSALEM1009AID AGENCIES CONSIDER ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: USAID partners, UN agencies, and NGOs agreed in a March 3 consultation that they would not be positioned to cover serious gaps in healthcare service delivery and increasing food insecurity in an environment of deteriorating security and political restrictions. USAID highlight [...]
2006-03-13 05:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ECON EAID PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM1046HAMAS POLITICAL 'GUIDELINES' FIRM ON RESISTANCE,
[...] (SBU) Palestinian press March 12 carried excerpts of Hamas' political "guidelines" for the next cabinet, first published on a Hamas website, which outline the movement's positions on Palestinian resistance, the inviolability of the "right of return," and parameters for maintaining the "tahd [...]
2006-03-13 15:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1080PASF SUPPORT TO CONGEN DURING JERICHO CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite widespread anger over rumors of USG complicity in the March 14 IDF attack on the Jericho prison, PA Security Forces (PASF) worked closely with the ConGen to mitigate violence against AmCits over the course of March 14. ConGen officers were able to enlist Interior Ministry [...]
2006-03-15 15:24:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL ASEC CASC MOPS IS PTER PGOV
06JERUSALEM1085PA FINANCES: SALARIES PAID THOUGH STILL SHORT ON
[...] (C) Summary: PA Deputy Finance Minister al-Wazir confirmed that the PA had disbursed basic salaries for civil servants and security service members March 15. Though the PA was still short on funds, al-Wazir said that Arab Bank had agreed to re-open a USD 50 million credit line for the PA to [...]
2006-03-16 08:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM1106FATAH LEGISLATORS SEE ISRAELI ACTIONS,
[...] (C) Summary. During a March 13 meeting in Bethlehem, four Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members asserted that Israeli policies had played a deciding factor in the Hamas victory in the January 25 legislative elections. These mid-level Fatah leaders, who are close to Fatah's g [...]
2006-03-17 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1117FATAH FACTION CALLS FOR PA TO DISSOLVE
[...] (C) In the wake of the Hamas PLC victory and the March 14 IDF Jericho raid, calls by Fatah cadres to dissolve the Palestinian Authority and transfer responsibility for administering the West Bank and Gaza back to Israel as occupying power have begun to resurface. Paragraph 3 contains the text [...]
2006-03-17 16:52:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG KDEM PGOV
06JERUSALEM1119JERICHO RAID: POLITIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR KEY
[...] (C)SUMMARY: The March 14 Israeli raid on the Jericho prison has hurt President Abbas, (Abu Mazen) standng among Palestinians and bolstered the perceptin that his administration is vacillating and oftn incompetent. Criticism from the HAMAS leadershp has been focused on the U.S. and U.K., rather [...]
2006-03-17 17:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPAL PGOV ASEC IS
06JERUSALEM114PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials January 9 reported to the Consul General that the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has provided conflicting messages on its ability to provide Election Day security. The MOI has agreed to abide by CEC procedures for early voting for the [...]
2006-01-09 18:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1144ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER ON UPCOMING LIFE UNDER
[...] (U) Action request - please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) A March 20 discussion between Pol Chief and PA Assistant Foreign Minister for Refugees and Palestinian Expatriates Ma'in Shraym revealed deep concern regarding the impending takeover by Hamas of the PA, and of the rumored selection of Hama [...]
2006-03-21 14:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL KWBG UNGA
06JERUSALEM1145RAISING ISSUE OF 89 PALESTINIANS ON THE
[...] (C) In connection with ref (a),Con Gen Pol specialist contacted Azzam Ahmad, head of the Fatah PLC faction and former PLO ambassador to Baghdad. Post stressed the need for the PA to do everything possible to keep other Palestinians from leaving Baghdad for Jordan and indicated that we are in [...]
2006-03-21 14:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF KPAL PHUM PINS KCRS MOPS IZ PA JO
06JERUSALEM1153JOB-SEEKING MILITANTS ATTACK PA OFFICIALS, OFFICES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of intense gun battles erupted on March 20 in Gaza between armed gunmen and Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF). During the fracas, Civil Police Chief BG Ala'a Husni's motorcade was attacked and at least twelve people were injured. PA Ministry of Interior (MOI) [...]
2006-03-21 16:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1175HAMAS-LED CABINET TAKING SHAPE
[...] (C) During a March 19 meeting in Gaza with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas, Hamas PM-designate Isma'il Haniyyah presented Abbas with a list of cabinet ministers for the next Palestinian government. The Palestinian media, citing unnamed Hamas and PA sources, has identified [...]
2006-03-22 16:08:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1180ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT DEMARCHE: PALESTINIAN RESPONSE
[...] (C) In accordance with reftel, Polchief spoke on March 22 with Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizational Affairs Marwan al-Jilani about the upcoming Arab Summit. Jilani said that while President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) will be attending, it was still unclear whether Jilani [...]
2006-03-22 17:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG SU IZ
06JERUSALEM1231AI SITREP MARCH 27: CULLING BEGINS IN GAZA; ISRAEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The WHO and the PA reported that preparations for culling had begun and that infected flocks in Rafah and Jahr el-Deik began to be culled March 27. The PA has promised compensation for Gaza farmers with infected flocks. The Israeli labs returned negative test results for two [...]
2006-03-27 15:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1262PLC APPROVES HAMAS-LED CABINET, GOVERNMENT PLATFORM
[...] (C) Summary. Following two-days of debate, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) March 28 approved the Hamas government platform and 24-member Palestinian cabinet. The vote was 71 in favor, 36 against, with two abstentions. Fatah and Third Way PLC members led the opposition to the gove [...]
2006-03-28 17:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1271AI SITREP MARCH 28: PA FINISHES CULLING IN RAFAH;
[...] (SBU) PA Agriculture Ministry Gaza Director of Control and Quarantine Said Siyam said the PA had culled 13,000 chickens in Rafah March 27 and asserted that they would start culling chickens in farms located in Jahr el-Deik and Tel el-Hawa March 28. Siyam said the lab test results for Tel el [...]
2006-03-29 06:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1283AI SITREP MARCH 29: PA COMPLETES CULLING OF ALL
[...] (SBU) WHO Representative Mahmud Daher told EconOff March 29 that the PA had completed culling the flock of 23,000 in Tel el-Hawa and had buried the carcasses in the former Israeli settlement of Netzarim. Although the neighboring areas originally objected to the burial site, the villagers eve [...]
2006-03-29 14:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1286"FIL MISH-MISH": PA ISSUES TENDER FOR MOBILE
[...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority (PA) Telecom Ministry issued a tender March 28 for eligible strategic partners to bid on a 30 percent share of a second mobile telecom operator in the West Bank and Gaza. This operator would be granted a new license to establish and operate a GSM telecom network an [...]
2006-03-29 15:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS TINT TSPL PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM1287PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO ISRAELI ELECTIONS
[...] (C) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) welcomed acting PM Olmert's comments after the election supporting negotiations, and a number of Fatah interlocutors stressed Abu Mazen's genuine willingness to negotiate. Fatah members all stressed that any progress in negotiations depended upon Israel [...]
2006-03-29 15:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1318LOCAL DONORS' CONTACT POLICIES WITH PA: EITHER
[...] (C) Summary: Key donors and implementing agencies active in the West Bank and Gaza reviewed their current contact policy with the PA in a March 30 meeting. The European Commission's Technical Assistance Office is still awaiting official guidance from Brussels. The Norwegian Representative O [...]
2006-03-30 16:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1319EVICTION FINALLY COMES FOR EAST JERUSALEM FAMILY
[...] (C) Summary. An East Jerusalem Palestinian family, engaged in a protracted legal battle with the Government of Israel (GOI) to maintain ownership of their home in Silwan, was summarily evicted March 29. According to an attorney involved in the case, privately hired Israeli security guards [...]
2006-03-30 16:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1327AI SITREP MARCH 31: PA CULLS 96,700 FOWL IN GAZA;
[...] (SBU) WHO Representative Mahmud Daher reported to EconOff March 31 that the PA had completed the culling and burial of 96,700 birds from all infected areas in Gaza. He said the PA continued to conduct surveillance and to monitor areas where these outbreaks had occurred. Samples taken from th [...]
2006-03-31 14:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1328GAZA PULL-OUT GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH FROM UNEP
[...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced March 30 that its environmental assessment had yielded a "clean bill of health" for the former Israeli settlement areas in Gaza. Key conclusions were that certain areas needed minor clean-up and a land use plan. UNEP said [...]
2006-03-31 15:38:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1337PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION FACING INSOLVENCY
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials warned international donors that the CEC faced insolvency unless it received immediate financial assistance to cover its one-year budget. CEC Chairman Dr. Hana Nasir said that the CEC -- an independent agency whose leade [...]
2006-04-03 13:23:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1339LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION REQUESTS USG
[...] (C) Summary. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF),owner and operator of Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem, is facing a May 22 final hearing in the Israeli High Court on the hospital's tax liability to the Government of Israel (GOI) -- specifically an employer tax based on a 1967 [...]
2006-04-03 14:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1341AI APRIL 3 UPDATE: TWO NEW CONFIRMED CASES IN
[...] (SBU) World Health Organization (WHO) Representative Mahmud Daher reported to EconOff April 3 that two new cases of Avian Influenza (AI) had been confirmed in two egglayer farms in Rafah. Each farm has 2,000 egglayers. Daher said the PA planned to cull the infected flock immediately. He ad [...]
2006-04-03 14:31:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1342VIOLENT CLASHES IN GAZA FOLLOWING KILLING OF PRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Four Palestinians were killed and 33 were wounded in clashes following the killing of Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) military leader 'Abd Yusif al-Quqa (Abu Yusif) in Gaza City. Al-Quqa was killed on March 31 when a bomb exploded as he walked past a parked car. PRC spokesmen [...]
2006-04-03 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1346SENIOR PA ADVISOR:"WE'RE COUNTING ON THE
[...] (C) "Al-Ayyam" editor Akram Hanniyyah told visiting NEA A/S Welch and DAPNSA Abrams on April 1 that he expects Hamas to focus on governing rather than politics or resistance in the short term, but that he believes the challenge of actually governing PA controlled areas would prove too much fo [...]
2006-04-04 06:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1348EREKAT ON THE WAY FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 31 discussion, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member and PLO Negotiations Affairs Chief Sa'eb Erekat told NEA A/S Welch, DAPNSA Abrams, LTG Dayton and Consul General that President Abbas (Abu Mazen) must focus on three areas in the coming months: revitalizing [...]
2006-04-04 07:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV IS PREL PTER
06JERUSALEM1377PLC APPROVES EXTENSION OF PA'S 2005 BUDGET
[...] (SBU) The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) approved in three readings March 29 an amendment to the Budget Law extending the PA government's legal authority to collect revenues and authorize expenditures based on the 2005 budget until May 31, 2006, when the Finance Minister must present [...]
2006-04-04 11:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM1382IAF BOMBS NSF SITE NEAR ABU MAZEN'S GAZA OFFICE
[...] (SBU) Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft fired three missiles at 1440L at a helicopter-landing pad in the Gaza City Ansar 2 compound, a largely abandoned National Security Force (NSF) facility that was used for the storage and maintenance of former President Arafat,s helicopters. The facility is [...]
2006-04-04 14:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1383BANKS IN WEST BANK/GAZA TOLD THAT ISRAELI BANKS
[...] (C) Action request at para 5. 2. (C) Arab Bank Regional Manager Mazen Abu Hamdan told EconChief April 14 that Arab Bank was informed that afternoon by its Israeli correspondent bank, Bank Hapoalim, that all Israeli banks would cease working with commercial banks operating in the West Bank/ [...]
2006-04-04 15:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM139PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) January 11 appealed for independent Fatah candidates running in the district races to withdraw their candidacies. Palestinian contacts suggest that this request will have minimal effect on most of these candidates. [...]
2006-01-12 10:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1410PA SECURITY FORCES: CONTINUED LACK OF CLARITY IN
[...] (C) Over a week after the assumption of power by the Hamas cabinet, the reporting relationships of the component parts of the PA Security Forces (PASF) remain unclear - both to us and to Palestinians. Hamas Interior Minister Said Siyam was named on March 29 by incoming PM Hanniyyah, and Siyam [...]
2006-04-05 12:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG MCAP MOPS
06JERUSALEM1420MOST DONORS STILL AWAITING GUIDANCE ON CONTACTS
[...] (C) Summary: Donors participating in a donor-only Local Development Forum (LDF) meeting April 5 outlined their contact policy and assistance strategies in response to the new Palestinian Authority (PA) government. Most donors said they had received no specific guidelines from their governme [...]
2006-04-06 07:49:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1436LACK OF MONEY AND A SINGLE TREASURY ACCOUNT LIKELY
[...] (C) Action request/comment in para 7. 2. (C) Summary: Although the new PA Finance Minister had publicly promised to pay PA salaries by April 15, he told the PA cabinet April 5 that he had received a ministry with an empty treasury. USD 40 million in external assistance from Saudi Arabia [...]
2006-04-06 14:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM1448ABU MAZEN SECURITY ADVISOR ON NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) In an April 6 conversation with Pol Chief, Sahim Fateh (Abu Hisham),a close advisor on security affairs to PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) indicated that Abu Mazen is unlikely to take operational control over the National Security Forces (NSF),and reiterated a long-standing positi [...]
2006-04-07 16:02:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG MCAP MOPS
06JERUSALEM1467PSO FORCES HAMAS LEADERS TO LOSE FACE IN TWO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In two separate incidents, Preventive Security Organization (PSO) officers in Gaza initiated symbolic confrontations with HAMAS Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah and Interior Minister Said Siam. In both cases, the HAMAS officials backed down rather than escalate the altercation w [...]
2006-04-10 14:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1469ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The IDF responded to several weeks of steadily increasing Qassam rocket attacks with a barrage of artillery and missile strikes in Gaza. Presidential Security sources reported the Israeli strikes killed 17 Palestinians, including several civilians, and destroyed two homes. Local [...]
2006-04-10 15:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1486VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN GAZA AMID REPORTS OF HAMAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The IDF continued shelling Gaza for a fourth day in response to the launching of six more Qassam rockets into Israel. PA Interior Minister Siad Siam and Foreign Minister Mahmud al-Zahar reportedly initiated a low profile political effort to convince Fatah and Palestinian Islamic [...]
2006-04-11 14:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1487NABIL AMR DESCRIBES HIS ROLE AS PRESIDENTIAL MEDIA
[...] (C) Former PA Minister of Information Nabil Amr told PolChief on April 6 that he had been appointed as media advisor in the President's office. (Note: In an April 10 meeting, President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said he had yet to officially appoint any assistants, but planned to do so. End no [...]
2006-04-11 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1488AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE APRIL 11: 2 MORE CONFIRMED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-11 14:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1501PALESTINIAN FACTIONS DIVVY UP PLC COMMITTEES
[...] (C) The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) formally approved member assignments to 12 PLC committees following negotiations between Hamas, Fatah, and the other factions in the Council. Hamas is slated to control six of the 12 committees, Fatah four, and one each for Salam Fayyad's Third [...]
2006-04-12 13:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1508UN AGENCIES REVIEW CONTINGENCY PLANNING IN FACE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) head described on April 11 the likely humanitarian risks facing the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the coming months and the UN's contingency planning for what he described as a "predictable and inevitab [...]
2006-04-12 14:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF EAID ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM1524TAXI PERMIT DISPUTE PRECIPATES AL-AQSA ATTACK ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah-affiliated militants attacked the offices of the PA Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah and Transportation Minister Ziad Thatha on April 13 in response to the HAMAS-led government,s decision not to disburse taxi permits that PA officials have used in the past to co-opt armed Fat [...]
2006-04-14 14:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1565PASF ELEMENTS ATTACK PLC BUILDING IN KHAN YUNIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest in a series of attempts by Fatah loyalists to embarrass and discredit the HAMAS-led Palestinian Authority (PA),gunmen attacked and occupied the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) building in Khan Yunis on April 15 to protest the PA's failure to pay March salaries [...]
2006-04-17 14:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS MOPS
06JERUSALEM1567HAMAS PREDICTS CHAOS IF INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In what may appear to be an escalating war of words, Hamas officials, including PM Isma'il Haniyyah, April 14-16 lashed out at U.S., European, and Israeli efforts to isolate and undermine the new Hamas-led government. In comments before tens of thousands of Muslim worshipper [...]
2006-04-17 16:16:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM157PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat January 12 provided the Consul General a one-page statement endorsed by 19 of the 39 Jerusalem PLC candidates. The statement, which includes the signatures of four Hamas candidates, urges that elections be held as scheduled regardless of any potential [...]
2006-01-13 17:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1590MIXED PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO TEL AVIV BOMBING
[...] (C) Summary. Disparate Palestinian reaction to the April 17 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv has shed further light on divisions between the Hamas leadership and President Abbas. While Abbas and the senior Fatah leadership have condemned the attack, Hamas officials -- either affiliated with th [...]
2006-04-18 16:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1620PALESTINIAN OPINION-MAKERS VOICE DOUBTS ABOUT U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Consul General met with a group of ten influential Palestinian contacts on April 20 to explain changes in USG policy following the formation of the new PA government and it's rejection of Quartet requirements. Several of the Palestinian interlocutors voiced objections to the U [...]
2006-04-21 15:27:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1621GREEKS, ARMENIANS PREDICTING CALM DURING HOLY FIRE
[...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem religious officials from the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates are cautiously optimistic that the April 22 Holy Fire celebration in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher will pass without incident. Greek Patriarchate officials April 21 were confident that deposed [...]
2006-04-21 16:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1622IMPLICATIONS OF JAMAL ABU SAMHADANEH SELECTION AS
[...] (C) The April 20 announcement of PRC head Jamal Abu Samhadaneh as Inspector General for the MOI is widely seen as a reaction to Abu Mazen's recent appointment of Rashid Abu Shubak as internal security chief and has set up a confrontation between the Hamas cabinet and Abu Mazen. The President [...]
2006-04-21 16:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG KPAL PTER
06JERUSALEM1644CONTINUING FATAH-HAMAS FRICTION
[...] (C) Supporters of Fatah and Hamas continue to clash in the wake of Khalid Meshaal's statements in Damascus on April 21, the appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadanah to the Interior Ministry, and Abu Mazen's subsequent cancellation of that appointment. Damascus-based Hamas leader Meshaal, speaking [...]
2006-04-24 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PTER
06JERUSALEM1648FORMER PLC MEMBER ASSESSES ELECTIONS, HAMAS, AND
[...] (C) Summary. Former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Ziad Abu Zayyad (Jerusalem, independent) April 21 presented his assessment of the challenges confronting Palestinians and the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA) to Senator Christopher Dodd and the Consul General. On the re [...]
2006-04-24 16:44:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1672ABU MAZEN AND GOVERNMENT AT ODDS ABOUT "NEW"
[...] (C) The ongoing dispute between the PA President and government regarding the formation of a "new" security force sheds light on tensions regarding security relationships and attempts by Hamas to promote law and order in Gaza. Hamas appears to be looking for a way to use its military wing, the [...]
2006-04-25 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG MCAP MOPS
06JERUSALEM1673YASSER ABED RABBO: MAKING THE CASE AGAINST HAMAS
[...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) member Yasser Abed Rabbo argued that President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Fatah needed a more coherent strategy to deal with Hamas and gain support among the public. Abed Rabbo said th [...]
2006-04-25 15:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1685NABLUSIS CONCERNED ABOUT PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT,
[...] (C) In a series of meetings with prominent Nablus personalities on April 25, Consul General heard concerns about the future of the Palestinian government and relations with Israel. Munib al-Masri, a leading businessman and host for the meetings, outlined his private-sector initiative intended [...]
2006-04-26 14:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1686PECDAR HEAD MAKES PITCH FOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 meeting with the Consul General, former Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Public Works and Housing Mohammed Shtayyah criticized statements from Hamas leader Khaled Mishal, which he said reflected the inability of the Hamas-led PA to respond to the growi [...]
2006-04-26 15:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1697PA OWES EAST JERUSALEM HOSPITALS FOR WEST BANK
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to East Jerusalem medical care providers, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to incur costs of over USD 800,000 per month for specialized care for the cases it refers from the West Bank despite empty coffers. (Note: A negligible number of cases are referred [...]
2006-04-27 09:39:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1704KARNI CROSSING ATTACK: INTRA-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?
[...] (S) The April 26 attack on the Karni crossing (details ref (a)) appears to have been the work of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC),according to PA security sources and an April 26 conversation between Consul General and Fatah PLC member Mohammed Dahlan. The PRC has officially denied any [...]
2006-04-27 14:40:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1717PLO NEGOTIATIONS AFFAIRS DIRECTOR ON POLITICAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 16:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1748JERUSALEM CATHOLIC HOSPICE DESCRIBES PROBLEMS FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 25 meeting with ConGen Poloff, the lead attorney for the Hospice Saint Vincent de Paul -- a Vatican-supported institution situated near the Old City of Jerusalem -- appealed for USG intervention with the Government of Israel (GOI) in response to the constructi [...]
2006-05-02 10:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1760UNRWA HEAD ABU ZAYD ON CURRENT SITUATION
[...] (C) United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner General Karen Abu Zayd told Consul General on May 1, in advance of her upcoming trip to Washington, that the situation in Gaza is worsening due to the general deterioration of the Palestinian economy, exacerbated by the non-paymen [...]
2006-05-02 12:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM1782PALESTINIAN LEGAL SNAPSHOT: AL-AQSA GUNMEN IMPOSE
[...] (C) Summary. In a case that underscores the precarious nature of the Palestinian Authority (PA) judicial system and the absence of law and order in Palestinian controlled areas, gunmen from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades last month intervened in a private homeowner dispute by imposing a sol [...]
2006-05-05 13:49:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM SCUL IS
06JERUSALEM1850PALESTINIAN POLITICAL FIGURES ON SALARIES,
[...] (C) Presidential Advisor Akram Hanniyyah and PLC member Salam Fayyad commented to Consul General in separate May 9 meetings that the payment of PA salaries is a critical issue. Hanniyyah pressed for immediate disbursement of the USD 70 million in Cairo, saying it would shift the press story fro [...]
2006-05-09 15:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1852AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL TO DENY CARE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 4 meeting with EconOffs, CEO of Augusta Victoria Hospital (AVH) Tawfiq Nasser warned that AVH would be forced to deny "catastrophic care," such as pediatric dialysis and oncology treatment, to Palestinians due to a lack of funding. AVH, together with St. John Eye Hos [...]
2006-05-09 15:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID EFIN KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1853PA FINANCIAL CRUNCH HAS LOCAL CONSEQUENCES
[...] (C) Summary. In a sign that the Hamas-led government's financial difficulties are trickling downward, a somber Hani al-Hayek -- Fatah mayor since May 2005 of the Bethlehem-area town of Bayt Sahur (population 13,000) -- informed ConGen Poloff May 5 that his municipality faced a serious finan [...]
2006-05-09 15:51:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1854ABBAS-HANIYYAH TALKS PRODUCE FEW RESULTS; CLASHES
[...] (C) Summary. Talks initiated over the May 6-7 weekend between President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas PM Isma'il Haniyyah failed to resolve disagreements over security responsibilities and appointments. Clashes erupted between Fatah and Hamas for a second day, May 9, in the Gaza Stri [...]
2006-05-09 16:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM1883FIRST SHIPMENT OF USD 10 MILLION IN MEDICAL
[...] Two trucks loaded with medicine and medical supplies left the CARE International warehouse in Ramallah the morning of May 10, headed toward Gaza. The two truckloads are the first shipment as part of the USD 10 million pledge of in "in kind" medical assistance to the Palestinians that was annou [...]
2006-05-10 15:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL EAID KPAO KPAL KWBG TSPA OIIP
06JERUSALEM190PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian and Israeli officials met January 16 to work on technical issues relating to voting in East Jerusalem. Officials discussed the possibility of issuing 6,000 tickets to East Jerusalem residents to allow them to vote at designated post offices. Both sides are schedu [...]
2006-01-17 17:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1904HAMAS RESPONSE TO QUARTET MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PA government and HAMAS leadership put out varied responses to the Quartet's decision to establish a mechanism to deliver aid to Palestinians. Prime Minister (PM) Isma'il Hanniyah complained that the international community is still placing conditions on the PA. Foreign Mi [...]
2006-05-12 09:52:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1915PALESTINIAN HOSPITALS IN NEED OF DIALYSIS MEDICINE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Government hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza have less than a two-week supply of dialysis products to meet the needs of 292 patients in Gaza and 400 in the West Bank, according to CARE International staff. In some [...]
2006-05-12 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM1917PALESTINIAN PRISONERS PROPOSE "NATIONAL ACCORD
[...] (C) The "National Accord Document" put out by prominent Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on May 10 has been placed on the agenda of the "National Dialogue" due to be held on May 24-25. However, initial tepid Hamas reactions have exacerbated concerns among Palestinian observers that the [...]
2006-05-12 16:11:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1918SETTLER HARASSMENT OF PALESTINIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN
[...] SUMMARY. Settlers from Ma'on and Hill 833 outpost in the southern Hebron Hills have waged an ongoing campaign of harassment against Palestinian schoolchildren traveling from Um Tuba to their school in al-Tuwani, according to Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). CPT believes that settlers attack [...]
2006-05-12 16:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM1985AL-KIDWA ON FINANCES, HAMAS, OLMERT, AND
[...] (C) In May 16 meeting with the Consul General, newly appointed presidential advisor for diplomatic and political affairs Nasser al-Kidwa pushed for immediate release of money in Arab League accounts. He said Hamas had discussed the idea of a NUG with Abu Mazen, who had warned that any governm [...]
2006-05-16 16:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2004ABU MAZEN REPORTEDLY MOVES TO RETAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian sources in the PA President's office and the General Intelligence reported May 14 that President Abbas (Abu Mazen) has moved to retain administrative control of the PA security forces (PASF) by appointing an advisory committee composed of key security chiefs. The meas [...]
2006-05-17 14:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALIS KPAL KWBG PREL MOPS
06JERUSALEM2007INTERIOR MINISTER DEPLOYS MILITANTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Interior Minister Siad Siam deployed the recently formed Special Security Force, composed of militants from several factions, in Gaza on May 17 following several weeks of escalating violence. Siam took this action after gunmen assassinated two prominent HAMAS military leaders in [...]
2006-05-17 15:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2008JERUSALEM PLC MEMBER CALLS FOR MORE NUANCE IN
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 15 meeting with the Consul General, Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Bernard Sabella called for more nuance in the international community's approach toward the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority (PA). Sabella agreed that pressure should be pla [...]
2006-05-17 16:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2028SECURITY FORCES DEPLOYED IN PARALLEL AS EGYPT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Security forces under President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) control deployed throughout Gaza on May 17 and 18 in response to the HAMAS-led government's deployment of a new security force composed of militants from factions loyal to HAMAS. Egyptian officials hosted a meeting between high-l [...]
2006-05-18 16:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG MOPS PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2033GAZA STANDOFF CONTINUES; HAMAS FUNDS SEIZED AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A tense standoff between security forces under President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) control and Interior Ministry forces continued in several localities in Gaza on May 18 and 19. Four Palestinians were injured in clashes overnight on May 18 during a gun battle in Gaza City. Talks betwee [...]
2006-05-19 14:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG MOPS PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2036HEBRONITES DISCUSS SETTLERS, ECONOMY AND HAMAS
[...] (C) Summary. In a May 18 meeting with the Consul General, prominent Hebronites expressed concerns about settlers, the economy and Hamas' stewardship of the government. Hebron Governor Jabari expressed his appreciation for USG assistance in past difficulties involving the Ibrahimi Mosque/T [...]
2006-05-19 15:27:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG EAID
06JERUSALEM2058FAYYAD AND ABED RABBO ON NATIONAL DIALOGUE AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Salam Fayyad and PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) member Yasir Abed Rabbo told the Consul General at a May 20 meeting in Ramallah that plans are moving forward for the National Dialogue, but some of President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) closest [...]
2006-05-22 13:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2060UNRWA OFFICIALS OUTLINE CONTACT POLICY WITH PA,
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 12 meeting with IO Assistant Secretary Kristen Silverberg, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi said that his agency would maintain "minimal" contact with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Grandi argued that some technical interaction is necessar [...]
2006-05-22 13:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2066ASSASINATION ATTEMPTS AGAINST FATAH SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic but intense clashes between Fatah- and HAMAS-affiliated forces left at least six people dead in Gaza between May 20-22. The clashes began following the attempted assassination of General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) Chief Tariq Abu Rajab, who was severely injured on May 20 [...]
2006-05-22 15:12:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2068LIVELIHOOD OF GAZA FISHERMEN THREATENED
[...] (SBU) According to an April World Food Programme (WFP) report, local demand for fish in Gaza has doubled and put pressure on Gaza fishing grounds, already restricted to 6 nautical miles from the shore. (Note: The Oslo Accords designated 20 miles of fishing grounds for Palestinians in Gaza. [...]
2006-05-22 15:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PHUM EAID EFIS KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2098RELATIVE CALM RETURNS TO GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Gaza was relatively calm on May 23 after senior Fatah and HAMAS officials agreed to take steps to prevent further violence. However, rival armed groups continue to patrol the streets and a potential remains for a return of violent clashes. PA government spokesman Ghazi Hamad tol [...]
2006-05-23 15:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2118SPORADIC VIOLENCE IN GAZA; IDF OPERATION LEAVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic violence continued in Gaza May 23-24. In Ramallah, a May 24 IDF arrest operation targeting a PIJ activist resulted in four Palestinians dead and at least 35 wounded. HAMAS spokesmen publicly accused the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security Organization (PSO) of orches [...]
2006-05-24 14:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2134FATAH AND HAMAS MEET TO EASE TENSIONS IN GAZA AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tensions remain high in Gaza despite efforts by Fatah and Hamas to calm the situation. Clashes took place in Gaza City and a kidnapping elsewhere. The death of a PSO chief appears to be a "work accident" and not part of the ongoing clashes. Fatah and Hamas representatives me [...]
2006-05-25 15:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC
06JERUSALEM2135ABBAS SETS DEADLINE FOR "NATIONAL DIALOGUE"
[...] (C) Summary. Representatives from Fatah, Hamas, other Palestinian factions, and civil society convened May 25 in Ramallah and Gaza City for a two-day session of "National Dialogue." In his speech before conference delegates in Ramallah, Palestinian President Abbas (Abu Mazen) set a 10-day [...]
2006-05-25 17:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2140WFP ANTICIPATING 25 PERCENT INCREASE IN CASELOAD
[...] (SBU) In a May 24 meeting, World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Country Director Jacques Higgins and West Bank Program Officer Claire Conan briefed USAID Health and Humanitarian Services Officer and EconOff on concerns about deteriorating food security in the West Bank and Gaza. Although WFP's [...]
2006-05-26 12:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2150INTERIOR MINISTRY PULLS BACK SOME OF ITS FORCES;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PA Interior Ministry scaled back its deployment of the HAMAS-affiliated Special Security Force in Gaza on May 26. The HAMAS commander of the force, Yusif al-Zahar, told the media that the move is intended to reduce tensions in Gaza, while noting that the Interior Minister exp [...]
2006-05-26 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2151DIVERGENT REACTIONS TO ABU MAZEN'S NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Hamas has yet to articulate a consistent position on Abu Mazen's intention to hold a national referendum proposal. Fatah officials have noted the discrepancy in statements from Hamas, a division which they hope to exploit in the coming 10-day discussion period. Meanwhile, the [...]
2006-05-26 15:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2165IDF RAID IN GAZA KILLS 4 MILITANTS; INTERIOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Undercover IDF units operating in Gaza killed 4 militants and injured 8 others during a May 30 pre-dawn ambush of a PIJ cell preparing to launch Qassam rockets into Israel. The raid followed several days of increasing Qassam attacks from Gaza. Interior Minister Said Siyyam May 28 [...]
2006-05-30 13:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2170NATIONAL DIALOGUE PROCEEDING
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian President Abbas agreed with Hamas representatives May 28 to divide the National Dialogue into three separate tracks: a Ramallah track on the prisoners' initiative; a Gaza track on easing Fatah-Hamas tensions; and a PLO track, possibly to take place in Cairo, on ref [...]
2006-05-30 15:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2199PRM 2006 AMBASSADORS' FUND PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (U) Summary. Post requests that PRM consider funding a Gaza Strip refugee camp project under the Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees program (reftel). The proposal requests USD 21,740 to support a project by the Palestinian NGO, Palestine Save the Children Foundation, to educate Palestinian wome [...]
2006-05-31 14:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM KWBG
06JERUSALEM2201LIVING CONDITIONS DECLINE IN GAZA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Anecdotal reports collected by ConGen FSN and USAID staff resident in Gaza indicate that Gazans have witnessed a decline in their living conditions in recent months. According to the World Food Programme (WFP),Gazans have generally pared down consumption of goods to essential [...]
2006-05-31 15:16:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON ETRD PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2223EREKAT DENOUNCES ISRAELI PLAN TO REVOKE JERUSALEM
[...] (SBU) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat June 1 faxed to the ConGen a letter addressed to NEA A/S Welch criticizing statements by Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On, published in the Israeli media on May 30, threatening to revoke the residency status of three Hamas PLC members from Jerusa [...]
2006-06-01 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2224OCHA INCREASES EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR PALESTINIANS
[...] (SBU) Citing deteriorating economic conditions, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its original appeal for the West Bank and Gaza upwards from USD 215 million to USD 385 million. OCHA head David Shearer said the new funding was predomina [...]
2006-06-01 15:16:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF EAID ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM2244SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED IN HAMAS-FATAH CLASHES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic but intense clashes June 1-5 between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip resulted in eight Palestinians deaths and 21 injuries. Hamas gunmen on June 5 set fire to the official PBC Palestinian TV broadcasting station in Khan Yunis. Four Palestinian military wing [...]
2006-06-05 15:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2245BANK OF PALESTINE PAYS SOME PA SALARIES; OTHER
[...] (C) Summary: In response to instructions from the PA Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Palestine (BoP) began June 4 to deposit PA salary payments into BoP accounts of PA employees. Funds for the payments reportedly came from a PA account for domestic revenues held at the BoP's Ramallah branc [...]
2006-06-05 15:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM2246ABU MAZEN, HAMAS HEADING TOWARD SHOW-DOWN OVER
[...] (C) Summary. A show-down between Abu Mazen and Hamas is looming as the midnight June 5 deadline to reach consensus on the prisoners' initiative nears. Absent an agreement, Abu Mazen intends to proceed with a presidential decree to hold a referendum on the initiative within the next 40 days [...]
2006-06-05 15:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2273ABBAS APPOINTS NEW WEST BANK COMMANDER OF FORCE-17
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian President Abbas (Abu Mazen) appointed Mahmud Damra to head the West Bank contingent of Force-17, a security force under the president's exclusive authority. Damra is suspected by the GOI of involvement in several lethal attacks against Israelis, including one that [...]
2006-06-06 16:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2274ABBAS DELAYS ISSUANCE OF REFERENDUM DECREE
[...] (C) Summary. Following June 6 consultations between President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) in Ramallah, spokesmen for the president announced that he intends to delay for several days issuing a decree on holding a national referendum. The delay reportedly stem [...]
2006-06-06 16:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2299VIOLENT CLASHES CONTINUE IN GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic clashes between Hamas and Fatah-affiliated forces continued throughout the Gaza strip on June 6 and 7. Two Preventive Security Organization (PSO) members (and three construction workers) were injured June 5 as a result of an attack on PSO headquarters in Gaza City. A [...]
2006-06-07 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2309RISING TENSIONS AS PUBLIC HEALTHCARE WORKERS
[...] (SBU) According to Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, public healthcare workers took to the streets in separate, uncoordinated protests in Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah June 6. Al-Ayyam reported that the protesters hailed from various health institutions and marched informally, carrying signs tha [...]
2006-06-08 12:32:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON EAID PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM2315DESPITE AGREEMENT TO REDEPLOY, HAMAS SPECIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Fatah and Hamas officials agreed June 7 to redeploy the Ministry of Interior Special Security Forces from populated areas and main thoroughfares in the Gaza Strip. Despite the agreement, UN personnel and Fatah contacts reported June 8 that SSF are still visibly present [...]
2006-06-08 14:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2381HAMAS FIRES QASSAMS INTO ISRAEL; INTENSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 9 deaths of 8 Palestinian civilians by a suspected errant Israeli shell, HAMAS militants launched a barrage of Qassam rockets into Israel. In statements to the media, PM Haniyyah and other PA government spokesmen called on the international community to halt Isr [...]
2006-06-12 16:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC
06JERUSALEM2391PA ADVISOR AKRAM HANIYYAH ON POLITICAL STATE OF
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Senior PA Advisor and "al-Ayyam" editor Akram Haniyyah told visiting NEA A/S Welch, the Consul General, and NSC/IPA LoGerfo on June 7 that President Abbas (Abu Mazen) is in a strong political position following his decision to call for a referendum on the prisoners' initiative. [...]
2006-06-13 07:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2399INTENSE FATAH-HAMAS CLASHES; AT LEAST 9 KILLED IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas groups continued in Gaza on June 12, spreading to the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Nablus and Salfit. Two people were killed in Gaza as a result of these clashes. There were no fatalities or major injuries in the West Bank incidents, but [...]
2006-06-13 13:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM240SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Fatah and Hamas candidates in Gaza signed an agreement pledging to refrain from displaying weaponry and abide by the democratic process. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met January 18 for additional discussions regarding Jerusalem voting. During a January 18 meeting at C [...]
2006-01-19 17:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM2402WEST BANK/GAZA BANKERS SEEK TO COOPERATE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Bankers operating in the West Bank and Gaza say they are prepared to adopt new procedures to avoid a threatened cutoff of check clearing and other banking services by Israeli commercial banks. They assert that a severing of banking ties will adversely affect both the Palestinia [...]
2006-06-13 14:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2404WEST BANK/GAZA BANKERS AND MONETARY AUTHORITY HEAD
[...] (C) Summary: Senior representatives of banks operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip warned June 7 that they will cease extending credit in three months as a result of non-payment of Palestinian Authority (PA) employee salaries. Rising indebtedness of PA employees will soon require banks t [...]
2006-06-13 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM2405PALESTINIAN BANKERS' SECURITY CONCERNS
[...] (C) Senior representatives of Palestinian and regional banks operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip expressed their security concerns to USAIDoffs and EconOffs June 7 over possible violent attacks against bank branch offices in response to non-payment of salaries (reftel). Arab Bank Regio [...]
2006-06-13 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL KWBG JO
06JERUSALEM2406PLC POSTPONES DECISION ON REFERENDUM; CEC PREPARES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an emergency session of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on June 12, HAMAS legislators challenged the legality of President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) decree calling for a July 26 referendum on the prisoners' initiative. After several hours of heated debate, the PLC ag [...]
2006-06-13 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2442ONGOING FATAH-HAMAS DISCUSSIONS ON PRISONERS'
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Abbas (Abu Mazen) reportedly agreed to continue discussions with the PA government on the prisoners' initiative during a June 13 meeting with PM Isma'il Haniyyah in Gaza. Fatah officials report that HAMAS is insisting on modifying the prisoners' document to include lang [...]
2006-06-14 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2443WHERE IS THE BOTTOM? PALESTINIAN STOCK MARKET
[...] (SBU) Palestinian stock prices continued to fall, with the Al-Quds Index losing 4.57 percent in the week ending June 8 and closing at 540.69. The Average Daily Trading Volume (ADTV) reached USD 2.89 million compared to USD 4.01 million four weeks ago. Lotos Investment analyst Waleed Makkieh [...]
2006-06-14 14:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2444GAZA VIOLENCE AND WEST BANK UNREST CONTINUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah-Hamas violence continued in Gaza June 14, resulting in the death of a Hamas activist and the wounding of a Preventive Security Organization (PSO) official in Khan Yunis. President Mahmud Abbas condemned the June 13 Israeli air strike in Gaza that killed 11 Palestinians, in [...]
2006-06-14 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2470ABU MAZEN/HANIYYAH REACH REPORTED DEAL ON SSF;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and PM Isma'il Haniyyah reportedly agreed June 14 to integrate members of the HAMAS-affiliated Special Security Force (SSF) into the PA Civil Police. Presidential security sources report that the two sides have yet to agree on whether the SSF will be i [...]
2006-06-15 15:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2471PALESTINIAN BANKS CEASE TRANSACTIONS WITH THE PA
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) Governor Abed stressed recently that local banks are not transacting with the Palestinian Authority (PA) government, in observance of the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control regulations. He noted that they are not accepting in [...]
2006-06-15 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL KTFN KWBG
06JERUSALEM2473PRCS HEAD SAYS KEY MOU IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. During a June 14 meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) president Yunis al-Khatib, the Consul General encouraged al-Khatib to work diligently to resolve the outstanding issues in advance of the June 20 International Conference of the Red Cross and the [...]
2006-06-16 04:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2485FATAH GUNMEN ATTACK GOVERNMENT FACILITIES IN WEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Fatah gunmen June 15-16 attacked Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and governmental offices in the West Bank, and fired at the car of a HAMAS PLC member in Jenin. As of 1500L on June 16, ConGen Fatah contacts reported that HAMAS-affiliated Special Security Forces (SSF) rema [...]
2006-06-16 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2486PALESTINIAN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WANT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian pharmaceutical companies called on donors, in a June 14 briefing, to coordinate with them on relief efforts and consider procuring Palestinian-manufactured drugs. They also asked donors to intervene with Israeli authorities to facilitate the passage of their produ [...]
2006-06-16 15:47:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON EAID PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM2509NABIL AMR ON REFERENDUM, ABU MAZEN
[...] (C) Summary. During a June 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, presidential media advisor Nabil Amr said that Abu Mazen was correct to proceed with the national referendum -- despite Amr's own objections to the prisoners' initiative -- in order to force the demise of the Hamas-l [...]
2006-06-19 08:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2511FATAH-HAMAS REPORTEDLY NARROWING DIFFERENCES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah sources reported that an agreement on the prisoners' initiative is near. Within Fatah, preliminary discussions have begun on a national unity government (NUG). The Interior Ministry Special Security Force (SSF) is still deployed in Gaza, despite reports of a June 14 agreemen [...]
2006-06-19 15:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2545PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY DISBURSES PARTIAL SALARIES
[...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority Finance Minister Abdel Razeq announced to Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members June 19 that the PA would start paying partial salaries in Gaza through the post offices that day and is considering doing so in the West Bank, as well. The local press June 20 [...]
2006-06-20 15:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KTFN KWBG
06JERUSALEM256HAMAS MUNICIPAL COUNCILS HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the course of the 2005 local elections, Hamas assumed leadership for several municipal councils in the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas's political priorities and strategies at the municipal level are a strong indicator of the movement's likely priorities after the Palestinian Legisl [...]
2006-01-20 14:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM257PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Central Elections Committee (CEC) published the finalized procedures for East Jerusalem voting on January 19. President Abbas signed a decree advancing the voting period for members of the PASF by one day to begin on January 21. Dozens of East Jerusalem residents clashed wit [...]
2006-01-20 16:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM2576MUNIB AL-MASRI TOUTED AS POTENTIAL PM IN NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Amid speculation that Fatah and Hamas are nearing consensus on the prisoners' initiative, and possibly agreement on a National Unity Government (NUG),Fatah and private sector sources have suggested that prominent Nablus businessman, Munib al-Masri, is a potential candidate for [...]
2006-06-21 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2577PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY DISBURSES PARTIAL SALARIES
[...] (C) Palestinian dailies reported June 21 that the Palestinian Authority would start paying partial salaries to PA employees in the West Bank through post offices, and that the payment would be NIS 1,350 (USD 304) per employee for those earning NIS 1,500 to 2,500. According to relatives of PA [...]
2006-06-21 16:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ELAB KTFN KWBG
06JERUSALEM2598TULKARM INDUSTRIES FACE BARRIERS TO MOVEMENT AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 21 meeting with the Consul General and NEA/IPA Director, Tulkarm business leaders and the Acting Governor described how restrictions on the internal and external movement of persons and goods in the West Bank had precipitated the governorate's economic decline and im [...]
2006-06-22 14:31:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND EAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2604LOOKING TO PLUG IN: PALESTINIANS SEEK ALTERNATIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Palestinian Authority (PA) is seeking to import electricity from Egypt and Jordan in order to reduce energy bills and diversify its supply, according to local press reports the week of June 19. 2. (SBU) (Note: The Israeli Electricity Company (IEC) generates 95 percent [...]
2006-06-23 14:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG EAID PGOV KWBG JO EG
06JERUSALEM2606PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN SEEKS HELP WITH
[...] (C) Palestinian-American businessman Zahi Khoury (please protect) met with the Consul General and the Ambassador June 20 at the Consulate General in Jerusalem to discuss problems at the Karni/al-Mintar crossing. 2. (C) As the Chairman of the Board of the Palestinian Economic Development ( [...]
2006-06-24 09:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2611PALESTINIAN COMPANIES LEAVING THE WEST BANK AND
[...] (C) Summary: Some Palestinian companies are moving their production facilities from Gaza and the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, according to Palestinian businessmen, on account of frequent and prolonged closures of the Karni/al-Mintar crossing and limited throughput. Due to non-payment of P [...]
2006-06-26 07:35:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM2650GAZA MILITANTS ABDUCT ISRAELI SOLDIER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) and HAMAS militants staged a brazen raid on an IDF outpost on the Israeli side of the Gaza border June 25, killing two soldiers and abducting a third. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a statement denouncing the attack as a violation of the "un [...]
2006-06-26 15:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV PTER IS
06JERUSALEM2672PA EMPLOYEES STRIKE IN PROTEST OF UNPAID SALARIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian Authority (PA) workers in the West Bank and Gaza went on strike June 22 in protest of non-payment of salaries. Municipal workers in some localities also went on strike. The PA Employees Union called off a planned June 28-29 strike due to political/security develop [...]
2006-06-27 14:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PHUM KLAB KWBG
06JERUSALEM2680MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Israeli ground and air forces initiated operations in Gaza late on June 27 and early on June 28. Israeli ground forces now occupy land in the southern Gaza strip, including the disused Gaza airport. Israeli aircraft damaged three bridges in central Gaza, and Palestinian contacts report l [...]
2006-06-28 09:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2696MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) held a press conference in which they displayed a copy of the ID card of missing Israeli settler Eliyahu Asheri and threatened to kill him if IDF forces did not leave Gaza. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has threatened additional kidnappings and rock [...]
2006-06-28 15:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2726MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Israeli military forces have reportedly expanded their foothold in southern Gaza and moved into northern Gaza. At least four Qassam rockets were launched at an Israeli town, and IDF naval and air forces have shelled Qassam rocket launch areas. The remains of missing settler Eliyahu Asher [...]
2006-06-29 09:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2748MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - DAMAGE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The electricity is out in 75 percent of Gaza, according to USAID Gaza-based field staff. The electricity distribution company began June 28 to rotate the available electricity to different areas in six hour shifts. The electricity shortage is also impacting hospitals, municipa [...]
2006-06-29 13:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ENRG ECPS EPET KWBG
06JERUSALEM2751MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) The IAF conducted an airstrike against PIJ militants in Gaza City and IDF forces continued to shell Qassam launching areas; however, Qassam rockets continued to be launched. Press reports indicate that Hamas militants blew a hole in the border wall between Gaza and Egypt, and that both E [...]
2006-06-29 14:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2754MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to USAID staff in Gaza, there are no reports of critical food shortages, but Gazans are stocking up on food supplies. Hospitals and clinics have emergency supplies for 14 days. All crossings remain closed. Diesel supplies are being quickly depleted, according to a [...]
2006-06-29 15:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2762MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Airstrikes in Gaza and shelling of open areas continue; IDF forces have conducted a number of raids in the West Bank. IDF ground forces have reportedly not entered northern Gaza. PA sources say that the breach blown in the Gaza/Egypt border wall has been repaired. There has been intens [...]
2006-06-30 09:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2766MGGZ01: FACTIONS CONDEMN HAMAS ARRESTS, REFUSE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A full day after the June 29 arrest of approximately 90 Hamas cabinet ministers, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, and others, Fatah and Hamas continue to condemn the Israeli action. Hamas is reportedly still working out what steps are necessary for the government [...]
2006-06-30 11:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2769MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Political developments led the news Friday afternoon: the GOI announced the revocation of Jerusalem residency permits for four detained Hamas officials and Prime Minister Hanniyyah delivered a sermon in which he sketched out the Hamas plan for continued governance, including a proposal for [...]
2006-06-30 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2771MGGZ01- QUICK ACTION CLOSES BREECH IN WALL BETWEEN
[...] (C) At 1245L on June 29, gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees and the Hamas-affiliated Izzedine Qassam Brigades detonated a landmine along the Egypt-Gaza border, according to Khalil Khatib, a security officer in President Abbas' office (reftel). The explosion blasted out two adjace [...]
2006-06-30 15:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2772MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 1
[...] (C) The last 24 hours have been relatively quiet in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. IDF airstrikes and shelling in the West Bank and Gaza and Palestinian mortar and rocket attacks into Israel continue, but there have been no reported injuries. The manager of the Gaza power plant told Econ Chief [...]
2006-07-01 11:08:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2775MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 2
[...] (C) Israeli airstrikes over the last 24 hours damaged the Gaza office of Prime Minister Ismael Hanniyyah, among other targets. IDF forces continued their raids on Hamas-associated offices in the West Bank. Statements made by the office of President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) that blamed Hama [...]
2006-07-02 09:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2804MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 3
[...] (C) A statement on July 3 by groups claiming responsibility for the kidnapping of IDF corporal Gilad Shalit threatened that the abduction would be a "closed case" if Palestinian prisoners are not released by 0600 on July 4; they did not elaborate on their statement. IDF forces entered nort [...]
2006-07-03 10:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2812MGGZ01: HAMAS TEMPORARILY RESHUFFLES CABINET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a news conference on July 2, the PA Council of Ministers Secretary General announced that Prime Minister Ismail Hanniyah has entrusted the portfolios of arrested Hamas ministers to other ministers. PA Minister of Information Yusuf Rizqah stressed that there is "no political [...]
2006-07-03 13:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2813MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 4
[...] (C) A 0600 ultimatum regarding kidnapped IDF Corporal Galid Shalit passed without any significant developments. The IDF arrested three al-Aqsa Brigades' militants implicated in the June 25 killing of Israeli settler Eliyahu Ahsheri. The PLC held an emergency session on July 3, focused on the [...]
2006-07-04 08:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2820MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 5
[...] (C) A Qassam rocket impacted in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on July 4; the extended range, target, and timing of the attack resulted in wide press coverage and statements from Israeli political leaders; the military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility. The IDF initiated a third inc [...]
2006-07-05 11:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2821PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION SUSPENDS
[...] (C) Ammar Dweik, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC),on July 5 confirmed to ConGen Poloff that the CEC had received a two-sentence letter from Abu Mazen's Chief of Staff Rafiq Husseini requesting that the CEC suspend preparations for the July [...]
2006-07-05 15:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2825MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 6
[...] (C) IDF forces on July 6 expanded their incursion in the northern Gaza to the three dismantled settlements that had been the site of previous Qassam rocket launches. The Israeli move follows the launching of two additional Qassam rockets, one of which came near the southern city of Ashkelon. [...]
2006-07-06 12:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2826MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - NO FISH IN GAZA
[...] (SBU) World Food Programme (WFP) Information Officer Kirstie Campbell told EconOff July 4 that the IDF continues to prohibit fishing off the coastline of Gaza and that none of the 3,000 licensed fishermen have been allowed to fish since June 25. Head of the El-Tawafeek Fishermen Association [...]
2006-07-06 12:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS PHUM EAID KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2835MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 7
[...] (C) The casualty rates associated with ongoing IDF operations spiked sharply on July 6 and 7, with at least 21 Palestinians reported killed and over 65 wounded; one Israeli soldier was reported killed and several more wounded. At least eight Qassam rockets were fired, with no reported injurie [...]
2006-07-07 10:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2852MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - IDF INCURSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: USAID Gaza-based staff report that the IDF incursions in Gaza are directly impacting the treatment and handling of sewage in Gaza, portending negative environmental and health-related consequences. End Summary. 2. (SBU) IDF operations in northern Gaza continue to prevent [...]
2006-07-07 14:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PHUM PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2853EUROPEAN COMMISSION TEAM ARRIVES TO IMPLEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: European Commission officials said July 5 that the Commission's Management Team to implement the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) would be fully operational in Jerusalem during the week of July 10. The Acting World Bank Country Director said the Emergency Services Support [...]
2006-07-07 15:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN ECON PREL PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM2854MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 8
[...] (C) ConGenoffs assisted in the transfer of 68 American citizens from Erez Crossing to the Allenby Bridge for passage to Jordan on July 8. Another 34 Amcits originally scheduled to depart Gaza either failed to bring the proper documentation for transit or failed to show up at Erez. IDF mil [...]
2006-07-08 12:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2855MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 9
[...] (C) IDF forces appear to have withdrawn from parts of the northern Gaza strip, but remain present in the central and southern sections. An explosion near Gaza City on July 8 that killed a mother and two of her children has attracted wide media attention. Prime Minister Hanniyyah released a 5 [...]
2006-07-09 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM286PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Voting by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces continued for a third and final day, January 23, with turnout reported around 82 percent of registered voters at the conclusion of the second day of voting. ConGen contacts expect final turnout over 90 percent of registered [...]
2006-01-23 15:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM2867MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) The IDF continues its presence in central and southern Gaza. IDF raids continue, as do Qassam rocket launches. The factions claiming responsibility for the abduction of IDF corporal Gilad Shalit told the media on July 9 that they alone control Shalit's fate, and reiterated their demands [...]
2006-07-10 10:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2886MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF operations are continuing in central and southern Gaza. IAF air strikes on suspected Palestinian militants July 10-11 resulted in nine Palestinian deaths. One air strike near Beit Hanoun targeting gunmen instead struck Palestinian civilians, killing four. Israeli media reported t [...]
2006-07-11 13:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM PTER
06JERUSALEM2898MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF forces reportedly moved through the central section of Gaza on July 12, dividing the Gaza Strip in two. An IDF airstrike on a house near Gaza City killed seven Palestinians and wounded several others, possibly including Hamas military wing leader Mohammed Deif. Initial reports regard [...]
2006-07-12 14:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2902MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF military action in Gaza continued on July 12-13, although news coverage was overshadowed by the developing situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border. PA sources list 26 Palestinians killed on July 12, including the family that died in the IDF attack that reportedly wounded Hamas milita [...]
2006-07-13 12:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2919AMID PALESTINIAN JUBILATION, ABU MAZEN CALLS FOR
[...] (C) Summary. Palestinian public reaction to the July 12 Hezbollah attack and kidnapping of two IDF soldiers was immediate and overwhelmingly positive. Hamas praised the Hezbollah attack and called for a unification of efforts to attain the release of Palestinian and Arab prisoners. The P [...]
2006-07-13 15:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2937MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) Violence declined in Gaza on July 13-14, in comparison to previous days. Palestinian gunmen and activists attempted to force open the Rafah border crossing on July 13, but were dispersed by the Palestinian Presidential Guard. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) told the press July 13 that the f [...]
2006-07-14 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2940MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) Palestinian gunmen blew open a six-meter hole in the wall separating Gaza from Egypt near the Rafah crossing on the evening of July 14, enabling close to 3,000 Palestinians to cross from Egypt into Gaza. At least one Egyptian security officer was injured in the exchange of gunfire; Eg [...]
2006-07-15 10:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2941MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) The majority of IDF activities appear oriented to the Israel/Lebanon border area. 2. (SBU) In Gaza military developments, there was an IDF strike near Beit Hanoun on July 16 ; apparently an Israeli UAV opened fire on a group of Hamas gunmen firing at Israeli tanks across the fence line. [...]
2006-07-16 08:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3001MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF forces reentered northern Gaza on July 17; at least two Palestinians have been reported killed in this latest incursion. IAF aircraft struck government buildings, and supported ongoing operations in northern Gaza. There were approximately 15 Qassam launches from Gaza, with damage but [...]
2006-07-17 10:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3005PLO ENVOYS RETURN EMPTY-HANDED FROM DAMASCUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two PLO envoys traveled to Damascus on July 9 in order to deal with the crisis that began with the kidnapping of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25. The envoys met with Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa', Syrian Ba'ath officials, the Democratic Front for the Liberation o [...]
2006-07-17 11:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL ASEC IS
06JERUSALEM3022MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) The Rafah crossing opened July 18 to allow 2,000-3,000 Palestinians on the Egyptian side of the crossing to enter Gaza. Palestinian contacts report that more than 700 Palestinians transited into Gaza as of 1300 local. The IDF July 18 withdrew from parts of Beit Hanoun following its Ju [...]
2006-07-18 11:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3029MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) Approximately 100 American citizens left Gaza on July 19. Approximately 5,200 Palestinians passed through the Rafah crossing into Gaza on July 18. The IDF July 19 launched a large incursion into the al-Maghazi refugee camp, killing six Palestinians, including civilians, with at least 50 [...]
2006-07-19 13:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3080MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 20 SITREP
[...] (C) One hundred and three American citizens were evacuated from Gaza to Amman on July 19. IDF operations in the central Gaza Strip continued on July 20, killing two and wounding four. In Nablus, the IDF continued an operation against the main PA security forces compound. Palestinian Presid [...]
2006-07-20 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3082EUROPEAN UNION TEAM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF TEMPORARY
[...] (C) Summary: According to the head of the management unit implementing the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM),the European Union plans to support the World Bank's Emergency Services Support Program (ESSP) under Window I starting in an early August. Under Window II, the European Commissi [...]
2006-07-20 16:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN ECON PREL PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM3093MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 21 SITREP
[...] (C) Israeli Defense Forces withdrew from the al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on July 21 after a three-day operation that left 16 Palestinians dead and approximately 130 wounded. In Nablus, the IDF continued its operation against the PA headquarters complex. Two Qassams were fired from Gaza i [...]
2006-07-21 13:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3096MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 22 SITREP
[...] (C) Events in Gaza and the West Bank have been quieter than in previous days. The IDF ended its multi-day operation in Nablus, after demolishing a number of PA security buildings. One of the wanted Palestinians was reportedly pulled alive from the wreckage following the IDF departure. Presid [...]
2006-07-22 08:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3100MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 23 SITREP
[...] (C) The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continued arrest operations in the West Bank and small incursions into the Gaza Strip on July 22-23, and Qassam rockets continued to be launched from Gaza into the western Negev and Sderot. Media reports that Palestinian factions in Gaza had reached agree [...]
2006-07-23 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3129MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 24 SITREP
[...] (C) There continued to be isolated incidents of violence in Gaza July 23-24, with reports of three Palestinian fatalities. The IDF arrested 20 Palestinians in the West Bank on July 24. 11 Qassams were launched from Gaza into Israel on July 23, and an additional three were launched on July 2 [...]
2006-07-24 12:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM3163MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 25 SITREP
[...] (C) There continued to be incidents of violence in Gaza, July 24-25, with reports of six Palestinian fatalities. The IDF arrested 12 Palestinians in the West Bank July 24. At least four Qassam rockets were launched at the western Negev and Sderot July 24, and another three were launched, as [...]
2006-07-25 14:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM3178MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 26 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Heavy fighting between IDF forces and Palestinian factions in Gaza is ongoing, with reports of at least 14 Palestinian fatalities. At least nine Qassam rockets were launched into Israel, as of 1500 local July 26. Local media gave prominent coverage to Secretary Rice's meeting with PA [...]
2006-07-26 12:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM3221MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (SBU) At least 28 Palestinians have died since July 26, including civilians, during an IDF incursion into the Shijaya and surrounding neighborhoods in Gaza City. According to medical sources, at least 80 Palestinians have sustained injuries during the operation, which is ongoing as of 1400 [...]
2006-07-27 12:40:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3238ABU MAZEN DISBURSES PAYMENTS; TEMPORARY
[...] (C) Summary: The Office of PA President Abbas (Abu Mazen) began disbursing USD 91 million in payments to suppliers, PA employees and pensioners, social hardship cases, and the unemployed on July 23. According to the President's Office, payments were not disbursed to PLC members, PA ministers, [...]
2006-07-28 12:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KTFN KWBG
06JERUSALEM324PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Fatah activist associated with Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) candidate Ghassan Shakaa was killed in Nablus early on January 24, reportedly by gunmen associated with rival Fatah leader Jamal al-Tirawi. Large Fatah and Hamas rallies on January 23 marked the officia [...]
2006-01-24 17:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM3241MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (SBU) IDF units withdrew from the Shijaya neighborhood of Gaza City on the morning of July 28. At least 30 Palestinians died during the three-day incursion, including one PRC gunmen, two HAMAS military-wing activists, and several civilians, including a 73-year old woman and 13-year old boy. [...]
2006-07-28 14:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3252MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 31 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Post is working with Embassies Tel Aviv and Cairo to facilitate the departure of approximately 80 Americans from Gaza via the Rafah crossing on August 1. Palestinian Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat confirmed to the Consul General on July 31 that he was informed by Government of Israel [...]
2006-07-31 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3313MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 1 SITREP
[...] (SBU) The Rafah crossing did not open as planned on August 1 in order to allow more time for coordination among the concerned parties. As a result, the planned departure from Gaza of approximately 77 Americans and 10 PD grantees was also delayed. Post is attempting to facilitate the trans [...]
2006-08-01 13:06:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3316ISRAELI HIGH COURT TO ALLOW TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL
[...] (C) Jerusalem attorney Danny Seidemann confirmed to ConGen Poloff an August 1 decision by the Israeli High Court to grant entry by the Temple Mount Faithful -- an extreme right-wing Israeli group dedicated to rebuilding the Jewish temple on the site of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in the [...]
2006-08-01 15:27:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3347MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 2 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Post is coordinating with Embassies Tel Aviv and Amman to facilitate the departure from Gaza on August 3 of approximately 80 Americans and 10 PD grantees via the Erez crossing and onward to Jordan. 2. (SBU) IDF shelling and rocket fire into northern and southern Gaza on August 1 [...]
2006-08-02 11:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3357ISRAELI POLICE PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE CLASHES IN
[...] (C) Israeli police in Jerusalem are preparing for possible confrontations with Jewish and Muslim protesters on August 3 in the wake of the August 2 Israeli High Court decision to allow members of the Temple Mount Faithful (TMF) to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount (reftel). Visitation [...]
2006-08-02 14:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3358IMPENDING HOME DEMOLITION DRAWS APPEALS FROM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli and international human rights activists have appealed to the Jerusalem municipality to prevent the scheduled demolition of an East Jerusalem home. The municipality has so far rejected the appeals to cancel the demolition order, arguing that the house was built illegall [...]
2006-08-02 14:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM338PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) Con Gen election observers report elections proceeding smoothly in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the first hours of voting. PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),speaking to the media, commended the ongoing polling and described the events as "an election festival." Three polling stations i [...]
2006-01-25 09:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM340PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 12:30 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly. There was media coverage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas leader Mohammed Zahar casting votes in their respective locations. There continued to be reports of some votin [...]
2006-01-25 12:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM3403MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 3 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Post facilitated the departure of 49 Americans from Gaza on August 3 via the Erez crossing enroute to Jordan through the Allenby Bridge. The departure of 10 Public Diplomacy grantees has been deferred. 2. (SBU) Israeli police closed the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount to all non-Musl [...]
2006-08-03 14:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3415MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 4 SITREP
[...] SUMMARY: Three Palestinians were killed and two wounded August 4 as a result of IDF operations in Gaza. In the West Bank, the IDF arrested 11 Palestinians. The Rafah crossing remains closed as of August 4, but the Karni/al-Mintar and Nahal Oz crossings are operational. Nine of ten electric [...]
2006-08-04 14:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3435EREKAT REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO SECURE RELEASE
[...] (C) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat August 6 faxed to the ConGen a letter addressed to NEA A/S Welch denouncing the August 5 IDF arrest in Ramallah of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker Aziz Dweik. Erekat called the Consul General on August 6 to ask if the USG would intervene w [...]
2006-08-07 11:27:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3439LIVING CONDITIONS IN GAZA CONTINUE TO DECLINE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Anecdotal reports collected by ConGen FSN and USAID staff resident in Gaza indicate that living conditions in Gaza continue to decline. Electricity and water are in short supply, in addition to food, fuel, credit and overall economic opportunity. Electricity imports from Isr [...]
2006-08-07 13:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON EAID PREL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3440MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 7 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. The IDF concluded a three-day operation on August 6 in southern Gaza that resulted in 17 Palestinians killed, including seven civilians. Palestinian militants fired Qassam rockets the evening of August 5, resulting in no injuries or damage. Palestinian gunmen shot and kille [...]
2006-08-07 14:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM345PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 2:30 pm local time, PLC elections continued to go smoothly with 45 percent voter turnout in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip after seven and a half hours of voting. CEC Chairman Hanna Nasser estimated that voter turnout would be 75-80 percent by the end of the day and predicted that [...]
2006-01-25 14:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3464MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 8 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Gaza was generally quiet overnight August 7-8. Five Qassam rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel, but there were no reported injuries or damage. In the West Bank, IDF forces arrested three wanted Palestinians. Several staff members at the PA Prime Minister's office in [...]
2006-08-08 14:15:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM347PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 6:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly with only sporadic reports of violence. The Central Elections Commission reported voter turnout at 64.7 percent with 810,000 voting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Slow lines at East Jerusa [...]
2006-01-25 17:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS ASEC KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM348PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 9:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly in most areas, with nearly 81 percent voter turnout in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after over 12 hours of voting. The CEC determined that there would not be an overall extension of the votin [...]
2006-01-25 20:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV
06JERUSALEM349PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As of midnight on Election Day, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) was counting votes with preliminary results not expected until later on January 26. Polls in Jerusalem closed at 2100L, two hours after the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The election was notably free of serious vo [...]
2006-01-25 22:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM3519MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 9 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Three Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza into Israel on August 8. The IDF responded with shelling, resulting in at least two injuries. In the West Bank, an Israeli air strike August 9 in the Jenin refugee camp killed two Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) activists, [...]
2006-08-09 14:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3540MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 10 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sporadic violence continued in the Gaza Strip on August 9-10. Three Palestinians, including a five-year old girl, were killed and two homes destroyed in separate Israeli Air Force strikes. In the West Bank, Israeli forces arrested 13 people on August 9-10. The Rafah, the Ka [...]
2006-08-10 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3555ABU MAZEN'S OFFICE BUYS TRANSFORMERS FROM EGYPT
[...] (C) PA President Abbas' office authorized the purchase August 3 of seven power transformers from Egypt with USD 1.8 million provided by the Arab League to the Egyptian Electric Company, according to the UN Special Coordinator's Office (UNSCO) and press reports. These transformers are to repla [...]
2006-08-11 11:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG EFIN EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3560MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 11 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Israeli military operations destroyed three homes in Gaza on August 10-11; there were no reports of fatalities. An Italian tourist was stabbed to death in Jerusalem on August 10 in what Israeli officials are describing as a "possible terror attack." In the West Bank, three P [...]
2006-08-11 13:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CASC ASEC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3561FRUSTRATION GROWING WITH ABU MAZEN WITHIN
[...] (C) Summary. Criticism is growing within Palestinian circles over President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) political strategy. ConGen contacts within Fatah and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) have also expressed frustration with Abu Mazen's decision to conduct a multiple country tour in the [...]
2006-08-11 13:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3563TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM DISBURSES
[...] (C) The European Commission, through the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM),completed disbursement, over the last 10 days, of the first tranche of allowances to PA health sector workers. The allowances were disbursed through commercial banks and did not go to any PA Health Ministry emp [...]
2006-08-11 16:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KTFN KWBG
06JERUSALEM3593DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1701 TO PALESTINIANS
[...] (SBU) The Consul General delivered reftel points regarding UN Security Council Resolution 1701 calling for the full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon to PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat on August 12 in Jerusalem. Erekat said he would deliver a copy of the Security Council resolution to [...]
2006-08-14 13:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KPAL KWBG PHUM UN UNSC IS
06JERUSALEM3595ISRAELI ARAB FLIGHT A BOON TO BETHLEHEM ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The influx of as many as 1,500 Israeli Arabs fleeing Hizballah rockets provided a significant boost to Bethlehem's beleaguered economy. During the past month, hotel occupancy rates and sales at restaurants and food markets dramatically increased, thus more than offsetting the [...]
2006-08-14 14:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EIND CASC KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3596MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 14 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Low level violence in Gaza continued over the weekend, August 11-13, with no reported Qassam rocket fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for the firing of two rockets on August 14 from northern Gaza toward Ashkelon. Israeli media reported some l [...]
2006-08-14 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3611MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 15 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli aircraft overnight August 14-15 fired rockets at a suspected Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) house in the Jabaliya refugee camp, injuring at least 10 Palestinians. The IDF continued operations in the vicinity of the Gaza airport, where clashes resulted in two Palest [...]
2006-08-15 15:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3625MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 16 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli aircraft overnight August 15-16 fired rockets into the home of a suspected al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades member in Khan Younis, killing two Palestinians and injuring at least three others. A Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) member was killed during clashes between PIJ gun [...]
2006-08-16 14:54:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3635SEPARATION BARRIER ROUTE REVISED, BUT PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a July 2006 report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA),Palestinian and NGO contacts have informed ConGen that despite revisions, the route of the separation barrier will cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians from Palestinian-o [...]
2006-08-17 07:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3651HAMAS STAKES OUT TOUGH LINE ON NATIONAL UNITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas representatives have staked out a tough position on the creation of a new national unity government (NUG) in public statements following the August 16 agreement between PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah to begin negotiations on such [...]
2006-08-17 13:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM3652MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 17 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A 14-year old Palestinian was killed and four others were injured as a result of fighting between Fatah and Hamas militants in Gaza on August 16. A Hamas activist was killed in Gaza City when a bomb he was building exploded prematurely. Palestinian militants fired three rock [...]
2006-08-17 13:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM366PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: DAY AFTER
[...] (C) Palestinian political figures awoke on January 26 to the signs of a political earthquake, with Hamas now generally expected to gain a majority in the new Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Fatah candidates Sa'eb Erekat and Mohammed Dahlan said the results were "a disaster" and spoke o [...]
2006-01-26 12:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM3670MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 18 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The body of a Palestinian reportedly killed by Israeli gunfire was found in Gaza on August 17. Three Palestinians in Gaza City were wounded when an Israeli Air Force plane attacked a metal workshop. The military-wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for a rocket launched from [...]
2006-08-18 12:02:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3678PALESTINIAN PARTICIPANTS TO 61ST UN GENERAL
[...] (SBU) President Abbas' office provided ConGen the official delegation list of Palestinians planning to attend the 61st UN General Assembly in New York. ConGen will follow up on arrival and departure times for the Palestinian delegation. 2. (SBU) Palestinian official delegation: -- [...]
2006-08-18 13:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
06JERUSALEM3679PALESTINIAN STOCK MARKET ENDS FREEFALL; REGULATORS
[...] (SBU) Summary. After plummeting for months, Palestinian stocks have gained 20 percent since mid-July 2006. The Palestinian Securities Exchange (PSE) August 13 reinstated a wider daily price trading range of five percent, thereby suggesting that concerns over market volatility have eased. PS [...]
2006-08-18 14:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3680WEST BANK/GAZA BANKS LIMIT LENDING, DELAY DEFAULTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to mounting Palestinian personal debt due to the non-payment of PA salaries, banks operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have essentially ceased consumer leading. Commercial lending continues, but at steadily declining levels. Some of the banks have postponed [...]
2006-08-18 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3682ABU MAZEN PAYING FLAT-RATE ALLOWANCES
[...] (C) Summary: The Office of the PA President will disburse through commercial banks, starting August 19, a flat-rate allowance of NIS 1500 to PA employees, PA pensioners, some social hardship cases, and those on the unemployment rolls. The PA Presidency plans to issue a press statement August 1 [...]
2006-08-18 15:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3708MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 21 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) units arrested PA Deputy Prime Minister Nasir al-Din Ashair and Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Secretary General Mahmoud al-Ramahi. Two Palestinians were killed and several injured in clashes between Palestinian militants and the IDF in Gaz [...]
2006-08-21 14:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3716PALESTINIAN PRIVATE SECTOR WILL ASSIST USSC
[...] (SBU) U.S. Security Coordinator LTG Keith Dayton met August 17 with Palestinian business leaders who acknowledged that security and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand, made suggestions for more private sector involvement in the management of the crossings, and pledged to do their part to [...]
2006-08-22 11:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ASEC PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3717DISTURBANCES AT BANKS DURING DISTRIBUTION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The PA President's Office released a statement on August 18 announcing payment of a flat-rate allowance to 170,000 Palestinians, paid for the back-to-school period from Arab League transfers. Crowds formed at some banks to protest their action to withhold a portion of the allo [...]
2006-08-22 12:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM3752MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 22 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen threatened to open the Rafah crossing by force on August 21. Seven Palestinians were wounded in Gaza overnight August 21-22; three were injured in an IDF operation near the Karni crossing, and four were [...]
2006-08-22 15:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CASC ASEC KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM3799HAMAS MINISTER ALLEGED TO HAVE SMUGGLED CASH INTO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-23 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV KTFN KWBG IS EG
06JERUSALEM3800MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 23 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. IDF shelling August 22 targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) members, killing three near Khan Younis while injuring another seven Palestinians. One IDF soldier sustained injuries from an anti-tank rocket in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli operation into the Shijayah [...]
2006-08-23 14:52:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3801UN SECRETARY GENERAL ANNAN ARRIVING AUGUST 29
[...] (C) In a August 23 meeting with DPO, UN Deputy Special Coordinator Kevin Kennedy advised that SYG Annan would be arriving in Jerusalem Tuesday, August 29 for meetings with President Abbas and GOI Prime Minister Olmert. Kennedy said Annan planned to convey some points on Israeli-Palestinian i [...]
2006-08-23 14:52:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC PTER KPKO IS LE KWBG
06JERUSALEM3804EREKAT OUTLINES NEXT STEPS TO CODEL SHAYS
[...] (C) Summary. During an August 19 meeting in Jericho, PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat told Codel Shays that the conflict in Lebanon resulted in a defeat for political moderation. Erekat maintained that extremist forces such as Hamas and Hezbollah have gained as a result of the violence, [...]
2006-08-23 15:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3812UPDATE ON PALESTINIAN PARTICIPANTS TO 61ST UN
[...] (SBU) President Abbas' office provided ConGen several additional names to the official delegation list of Palestinians planning to attend the 61st UN General Assembly in New York. ConGen has yet to receive arrival and departure times for the Palestinian delegation. 2. (SBU) The updat [...]
2006-08-24 11:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
06JERUSALEM3822PA PRESIDENT'S OFFICE DENIES SALARIES PAID TO
[...] (SBU) In an August 23 letter to the Consul General, President Abbas's Chief of Staff Rafiq Husseini stated that a story appearing in "Haaretz" newspaper alleging that Abbas had paid salaries to 5,000 Hamas "Operational Force" members "is totally untrue." Husseini added that the Office of the [...]
2006-08-24 15:13:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN KFTN PTER KWBG
06JERUSALEM3823MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 24 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian militants on August 24 detonated an explosive device near the wall at the Rafah crossing separating Gaza from Egypt. PA and Egyptian security successfully brought the situation under control. IDF units operating near Khan Younis overnight August 23-24 killed one [...]
2006-08-24 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3839MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 25 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Rafah crossing opened August 25 allowing thousands of Palestinians to transit from the Egypt and Gaza sides of the crossing. Israeli aircraft conducted air strikes in Gaza City and the Jabaliya overnight August 24-25, injuring eight Palestinians. The Palestinian Islamic [...]
2006-08-25 15:38:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM385POTENTIAL MINISTERIAL CANDIDATES: ZIAD ABU AMR AND
[...] (C) Two possible compromise candidates that Hamas may offer in upcoming consultations over government formation with President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) are Ziad Abu Amr, a re-elected independent PLC member from Gaza City and Mustafa Bargouthi, the head of the "Independent Palestine" party whi [...]
2006-01-27 16:44:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM386PA BASIC LAW: SEPERATION OF POWERS AND SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PA Basic Law and Presidential Decrees are the primary legal bases for government formation and control of the PA Security Forces (PASF). While the law is clear on some issues such as the selection of the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers, the Basic Law does not say a [...]
2006-01-27 16:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM3870MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 28 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nine Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in separate incidents throughout Gaza August 25-28. An Israeli Air Force (IAF) plane bombed and destroyed the home of a Hamas military wing member overnight August 25-26. Two journalists were wounded by an IAF airstrike [...]
2006-08-28 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3893FATAH CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING: FEW RESULTS, LOTS
[...] (C) Summary. The August 23-25 meeting of the Fatah Central Committee (FCC) in Amman produced few if any results. Participants stated publicly that no firm date has been set for the Sixth Fatah Congress, but announced ongoing efforts to field representatives. Separately, FCC sources said t [...]
2006-08-29 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3932MGGZ01- JERUSALEM AUGUST 30 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nine Palestinians were killed in separate incidents throughout Gaza August 28-29. Palestinian militants fired several antitank shells against the IDF in Gaza, injuring one IDF soldier. One Qassam rocket landed near Sderot on August 29, causing no injuries. Israeli forces k [...]
2006-08-30 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3933TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM: UPDATE AND
[...] Action request for Department in para. 11. 2. (C) Summary: Window II (fuel) and Window III (allowances) of the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) continue to function. Window I, the World Bank's Emergency Services Support Program (ESSP),is still pending as the Bank finalizes the gr [...]
2006-08-30 14:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM3949ABBAS PROCLAIMS SUPPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2 GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) told striking PA employees gathered outside his Ramallah office August 30 that they have a right to express their opinion by all appropriate means, thus signaling his support for a planned general strike set to start September 2. He urge [...]
2006-08-31 14:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM ELAB
06JERUSALEM3965MGGZ01- JERUSALEM SEPTEMBER 1 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IDF troops withdrew from the Gaza City neighborhood of Shajayah on August 31, after a four-day incursion. Unknown gunmen kidnapped and later released a relative of HAMAS' Executive Force commander in Khan Younis on August 31. In a separate incident, Palestinian gunmen kille [...]
2006-09-01 13:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3987NON-PAYMENT OF PA SALARIES IMPERILS MICROFINANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Non-payment of PA employee salaries is threatening the viability of microfinance programs operating in the West Bank and Gaza, according to lending agencies. In Gaza, where the local economy is extremely dependent on PA salaries, loans with payments more than 30 days overdue h [...]
2006-09-05 15:02:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3996JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (09/06): THE HAMAS GOVERNMENT
[...] Ahmad Majdalani commented in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Is it a Salary Crisis or a Ruling Crisis?" (9/6): "None of the slogans of change and reform, the basis on which the current parliament and government were voted, has been implemented. Although the government would like to bl [...]
2006-09-06 09:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM4029WIDE PARTICIPATION AS GENERAL STRIKE ENTERS FIFTH
[...] Summary: A general strike by PA employees in protest of non-payment of salaries since March (see ref) entered its fifth day, September 6. Union leaders have estimated 80-90 percent PA employee participation. Although the strike is more comprehensive in the West Bank than in Gaza, it has br [...]
2006-09-06 14:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM EFIN KWGB
06JERUSALEM4031TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM: FIRST
[...] (C) Summary: The first meeting of the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) Consultative Group, September 1, reviewed implementation progress to date. Both Windows II (provision of fuel to health, water, and sanitation sectors in Gaza) and III (allowances) have been implemented fully by th [...]
2006-09-06 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM4076NEED TO PRESS CONGRESS FOR USD 75 MILLION IN FY07
[...] (SBU) We urge the Administration to approach Congress as soon as possible to request full funding of the Administration's FY 2007 request of USD 75 million for West Bank/Gaza ESF. Even though we have ceased our support to the PA government, the U.S. government has continued to support the P [...]
2006-09-08 14:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4232PA PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CONSIDERING RAMADAN
[...] (C) Presidential Economic Advisor Mohammed Mustafa told EconChief by telephone from Dubai September 19 that the Office of the PA President was considering payment of an allowance before the start of Ramadan to the same group of PA employees, PA pensioners, some social hardship cases, and thos [...]
2006-09-19 15:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM4238TRANSFER OF EGYPTIAN TRANSFORMERS TO GAZA POWER
[...] (C) The executive managing director of the Gaza Power Gernerating Company (GPGC),Walid Salman, told ConGen EconChief September 19 that the first shipment from Egypt of temporary replacement transformers for the damaged Gaza Power Plant may arrive within a week. Salman advised that the GOI h [...]
2006-09-20 14:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL ENRG KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM4239KUWAITI COMPANY GRANTED SECOND PALESTINIAN MOBILE
[...] (SBU) PA Minister of Telecommunications Jamal al-Khoudari announced publicly September 18 that the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Wataniya Telecom has been awarded the second mobile phone operating license for the West Bank and Gaza. (Note: Palestine Cellular Communications Ltd. (Jawwal [...]
2006-09-20 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECPS EINV PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4272RAFAH CROSSING OPENS; WEST BANK AND GAZA CLOSED
[...] (C) The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened September 22 for the first time since August 25. Thousands of would-be travelers had already gathered on the Gaza side of the crossing when it opened at 0830 hours, according to PalTrade Gaza-based staff. The crossing closed for about an [...]
2006-09-22 14:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PHUM PREL KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4283RAFAH CROSSING OPENED FOR THREE DAYS THEN CLOSED;
[...] (SBU) The Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was open for passenger traffic in both directions September 22-24. Close to 10,000 travelers passed through Rafah during the three-day period, according to press reports. The crossing did not open September 25. Rafah had been comple [...]
2006-09-25 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PHUM PREL KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4335JORDAN AND EGYPT PROVIDE ELECTRICITY TO WEST
[...] (SBU) Summary. With the recent opening of a second electricity feeder line to Gaza, Egypt is now supplying Rafah with a total of 17 MW. Power previously provided to Rafah via feeder lines from Israel is now being diverted to other areas of Gaza where electricity remains in short supply. Th [...]
2006-09-28 15:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG EAID EFIN PREL PHUM KWBG JO EG IS
06JERUSALEM4346EU-BAM CHAIRS SECOND COORDINATION AND EVALUATION
[...] (C) Summary: In a productive second meeting of the Coordination and Evaluation Committee on the Rafah crossing chaired by the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EU-BAM),Israeli and Palestinian delegations, with a USG delegation present as observers, reviewed the Rafah crossing operati [...]
2006-09-29 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBTS PTER ETRD KWBG IS EG
06JERUSALEM4349PA PRESIDENT'S OFFICE DISBURSES NIS 1500
[...] (SBU) The PA Presidency publicly confirmed September 28 that it disbursed USD 65 million total in allowances, funds for overseas missions, and payments to some suppliers this week, using funds received from Saudi Arabia (USD 15 million) and Qatar (USD 50 million). Allowances of NIS 1500 (USD [...]
2006-10-02 10:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM4427PA DECISION TO BREAK TIES WITH ISRAELI FUEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: In late September 2006, the PA's Ministry of Finance advised its long-time petroleum product supplier, the Israeli company Dor Alon, that the PA will not renew its contract with the company after its December 31, 2006 termination date. The PA Acting Minister of Finance announ [...]
2006-10-10 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV ECON ETRD KCOR KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4472PALESTINIANS SEEK PROGRESS ON CROSSINGS AMA
[...] (C) ConGenoffs, accompanied by USSC, USAID and Embassy Tel Aviv representatives, met October 10 with Palestinian negotiators from the previous PA government who were involved in the negotiation of the Agreement on Access and Movement (AMA). The informal meeting, the first in a series of prel [...]
2006-10-12 12:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4511PALESTINIANS SEEK PROGRESS ON RAFAH/KEREM SHALOM
[...] (SBU) Summary: ConGenoffs, accompanied by USSC, USAID and Embassy Tel Aviv representatives, met October 12 with Palestinian negotiators from the previous PA government who were involved in the negotiation of the Agreement on Access and Movement (AMA). The informal meeting, the second in a se [...]
2006-10-16 12:28:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL PGOV ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4544FUEL SHORTAGES CONTINUE IN WEST BANK; CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: The PA's exclusive supplier of petroleum products, the Israeli company Dor Alon, continues to restrict shipments of petroleum products to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Fuel shortages are particularly acute in the northern West Bank. The severity of shortages, however, may have [...]
2006-10-17 14:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV ECON ETRD KCOR KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4566PALESTINIANS SEEK PROGRESS ON GAZA-WEST BANK LINK
[...] (C) Summary: ConGenoffs, accompanied by USSC, USAID and Embassy Tel Aviv representatives, met October 17 with Palestinians who were involved in the negotiation of the Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA). The informal meeting, the third and final in a series of preliminary brainstorming d [...]
2006-10-19 11:41:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4568PALESTINIANS SEEK PROGRESS ON WEST BANK MOVEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: ConGenoffs, accompanied by USSC, USAID and Embassy Tel Aviv representatives, met October 17 with Palestinians involved in the negotiation of the Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA). The informal meeting, the third in a series of preliminary brainstorming discussions intende [...]
2006-10-19 12:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4570PALESTINIANS SEEK PROGRESS ON GAZA-WEST BANK LINK
[...] (U) Summary: ConGenoffs, accompanied by USSC, USAID and Embassy Tel Aviv representatives, met October 17 with Palestinians who were involved in the negotiation of the Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA). The informal meeting, the third and final in a series of preliminary brainstorming d [...]
2006-10-19 14:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM458HAMAS EMPHASIZING UNITY AND MODERATION; FATAH AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas leaders inside the West Bank and Gaza continue to emphasize unity and moderation in their public statements, while the ConGen has received reports that senior PASF and Fatah officials are growing increasingly fearful of the impending transfer of governmental authority. Hamas [...]
2006-02-01 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM4587BARRIERS TO MOVEMENT AND ACCESS OBLIGE HEBRON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hebron-based companies have largely been denied permission to send their goods into Gaza through the Karni/al-Mintar crossing, according to prominent Palestinian businessmen. Passage is sometimes allowed with the payment of exorbitant unofficial fees. Hebron-produced school [...]
2006-10-20 08:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EIND PGOV PREL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4590PROBLEMS AT KARNI FORCING COCA-COLA TO SERIOUSLY
[...] (C) Summary: The chairman of the local Coca-Cola bottler, Zahi Khoury, says the company is slowly giving up on Gaza since it cannot get its West Bank-produced product into Gaza. Khoury cautioned that there will be no new investment in Gaza without credible guarantees that exports produced the [...]
2006-10-20 12:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALETRD EINV PREL PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4630ECONOMIC FREEFALL DAMAGING GAZA INDUSTRY; BANKING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Severely restricted throughput at Karni/al-Mintar crossing, non-payment of PA salaries, and IDF incursions continue to seriously undermine Gaza's economy, particularly its industrial base. With arrears mounting and almost no new lending, banks operating in Gaza are under incr [...]
2006-10-27 15:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4631GAZA'S POWER PLANT TO RESTART SOON
[...] (C) The executive managing director of the Gaza Power Generating Company (GPGC),Walid Salman, advised EconChief October 23 that the Gaza power plant may be ready to produce electricity again as early as the first week of November. He explained that the installation and commissioning of two [...]
2006-10-27 15:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL EAID KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM4632RELIGIOUS WORKERS FACE VISA DENIALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: American religious workers from Christian organizations in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain visas from the Government of Israel (GOI). Of those issuQ visas, many receive only a 3-month tourist visa or a one-year &humanitarian wor [...]
2006-10-27 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPAO KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4681BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON JAMAL AL-KHUDARI
[...] (C) Jamal al-Khudari, the current PA Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, has been mentioned in Palestinian circles as a potential Prime Minister in a new PA government. He was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006 as an independent from Gaza Cit [...]
2006-10-31 12:11:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKBIO PGOV KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM4713COMPANY SHORT-LISTED FOR RADIO TRUNKING BID IN
[...] (C) The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology is completing its selection of the winner for a radio trunking provider in the West Bank/Gaza, one using push-to-talk radio technology. Former PA Telecommunications Minister Sabri Seidam told EconChief tha [...]
2006-11-03 10:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECPS EFIN PGOV PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4722TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM LAUNCHES
[...] (SBU) Hans Duynhouwer, the head of the Temporary International Mechanism's management unit confirmed to EconChief October 30 that the expansion of Window III is underway. Starting October 13, the TIM began disbursing NIS 1500 (USD 350) payments to "low income cases" or those PA employees nor [...]
2006-11-03 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4735BIO OF MOHAMAD SHBEIR, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE
[...] (C) Following is biographic information developed by post on Mohamad Shbeir, the former President of the Islamic University in Gaza. -------------- MOHAMAD SHBEIR -------------- 2. (C) Mohamad Shbeir was president of the Islamic University in Gaza until his resignation in 2005. He ta [...]
2006-11-06 16:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4747STRIKING TEACHERS AGREE TO RETURN TO WORK; RISK OF
[...] (SBU) REPRESENTATIVES FROM PRESIDENT ABBAS'S OFFICE, THE GENERAL UNION OF TEACHERS AND THE PA MINISTRIES OF FINANCE, LABOR AND HIGHER EDUCATION REACHED AN AGREEMENT NOVEMBER 6 ENDING A TEACHERS' STRIKE LAUNCHED AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IN PROTEST OF NON-PAYMENT OF PA EMPLOYEE SALARIES. [...]
2006-11-07 15:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4757PROPOSED FIFTH MINARET RENEWS DEBATE OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A JORDANIAN PROPOSAL TO BUILD A FIFTH MINARET FOR THE AL AQSA MOSQUE ON OF THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT HAS RENEWED CALLS BY RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE IN THE SAME AREA. JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH ANNOUNCED A CONTEST FOR THE DESIGN OF THE MINARET IN OCT [...]
2006-11-08 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4759TEORRISM FINANCING COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, post provides the following information on Terrorism Financing Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO at post: TFCO: Amy Schedlbauer, Economic Section Chief, 972-2-622-7281, schedlbaueraw@state.gov Deputy TFCO: Stephen O'Dowd, Economic Officer, 972-2-622-7 [...]
2006-11-08 15:48:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN KWBG
06JERUSALEM4760PALESTINIAN CEC DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CONGEN REPS MET WITH HANA NASSER, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PALESTINIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION (CEC),AND ALSO Q-CHAIRED A MEETING OF THE CEC-ELECTION REFORM SUPPORT GROUP (ERSG) ON NOVEMBER 7 IN RAMALLAH. PRIVATELY, NASSER CRITICIZED FATAH'S LACK OF DISCIPLINE DURING THE PLC E [...]
2006-11-08 16:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4761WORLD BANK GRANTS USD 13 MILLION TO AID
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE WORLD BANK HAS APPROVED TWO GRANTS TO AID AVIAN INFLUENZA PREVENTION AND CONTROL EFFORTS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA. A USD 3 MILLION SHORT-TERM EMERGENCY GRANT, SIGNED WITH UNDP IN OCTOBER 2006, WILL SUPPORT PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES TO BE IMPLEMENTED OVER AN IN [...]
2006-11-08 16:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4769PALESTINIAN EMIGRATION ON THE RISE
[...] (SBU) THE PALESTINIAN DIASPORA AND REFUGEE CENTER (SHAML) ANNOUNCED AT AN OCTOBER 31 PRESS CONFERENCE THAT THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA IS CONTRIBUTING TO A MARKED INCREASE IN PALESTINIAN EMIGRATION. ACCORDING TO SHAML, FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS HAVE APPROVE [...]
2006-11-09 13:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV QM
06JERUSALEM4772HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN BEIT HANOUN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING THE IDF'S NOVEMBER 1-8 INCURSION INTO BEIT HANOUN (SEE REFTEL),THE AREA'S WATER AND ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE WAS DAMAGED AND AN IDF-IMPOSED CURFEW ON RESIDENTS PREVENTED THEM FROM OBTAINING ADDITIONAL SUPPLIES. DURING THE INCURSION, THE IDF GRANTED ACCESS TO BEIT HAN [...]
2006-11-09 14:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAID ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM4773PA PROMISE OF TEACHER SALARY PAYMENTS UNFULFILLED;
[...] (SBU) AS PART OF AN AGREEMENT REACHED NOVEMBER 6 (REFTEL) THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY (PA) ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD BEGIN PAYING PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS NIS 1,000 ON NOVEMBER 9. MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JAMAL AL-KHUDARI ORDERED POST OFFICE WORKERS, WHO ARE OBSERVI [...]
2006-11-09 15:02:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4774PROBLEMS IN PALESTINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM LEAD TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE PALESTINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM SUFFERS FROM A SEVERE SHORTAGE IN THE NUMBER OF JUDGES, WHICH HAS LED TO SIGNIFICANT DELAYS IN PROCESSING CRIMINAL CASES, ACCORDING TO ISSA ABU SHARAR, THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE PALESTINIAN HIGHER JUDICIARY COUNCIL. THE BACKUP OF CASES HAS IMPACT [...]
2006-11-09 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG KDEM
06JERUSALEM4786FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL NAMES ABBAS GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary: On November 12, the Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) named President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) the General Commander of Fatah. That makes Abu Mazen the formal leader of the Fatah movement and represents a political victory over the Secretary General, Farouq al-Qadummi. The FR [...]
2006-11-13 14:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4787TEACHERS RECEIVE PARTIAL PAYMENT; STRIKE ENDS;
[...] (SBU) PA PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS RECEIVED A PARTIAL SALARY PAYMENT OF NIS 1,000 ON NOVEMBER 11 IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PA GOVERNMENT AND THE GENERAL UNION OF TEACHERS (REFTEL),ACCORDING TO PRESS ACCOUNTS CONFIRMED BY ECONSPECIALIST. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPENED ON NOVEMBER 11 FOR [...]
2006-11-13 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4799DEMOLITION OF EAST JERUSALEM HOMES DELAYED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: TWO HOMES IN THE EAST JERUSALEM NEIGHBORHOOD OF ISAWIYYAH RECEIVED A 10-DAY STAY OF DEMOLITION NOVEMBER 14, A DAY BEFORE THEIR PREVIOUS STAY WAS TO EXPIRE. RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HAS TOLD CONGEN THAT THE JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY SENT SURVEYORS ON NOVEMBER 13 TO MAP AND PHOTOGRAPH [...]
2006-11-15 16:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4807EXPOTECH 2006 DEMONSTRATES PALESTINIAN IT SECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE THIRD ANNUAL PALESTINIAN IT SECTOR EXHIBITION EXPOTECH 2006 FEATURED A RECORD 49 COMPANIES, INCLUDING SEVEN PARTICIPATING FROM GAZA VIA A BROADBAND LINK. A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS FROM U.S. IT COMPANIES WERE ON DISPLAY. SECURITY-RELATED PRODUCTS WERE MORE PROMINENT THAN IN [...]
2006-11-16 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ECON BEXP KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM483HAMAS LEADERS: BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DATA
[...] (C) The incoming, newly elected Hamas PLC membership is a diverse and well-educated group. Some of the most prominent incoming PLC members bring with them administrative experience developed during the al-Aqsa Intifada, when Islamic charities and traditional reconciliation committees moved in [...]
2006-02-02 17:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM4833PROPOSAL WOULD EVACUATE SOME OUTPOSTS AND LEGALIZE
[...] (C) Summary: The Yesha Council has rejected a proposal (REFTEL A) to evacuate fifteen illegal outposts in the West Bank in exchange for "legalizing" eight others, saying it is too early for such negotiations. This proposal, from Israeli MK Otneil Schneller would also create a new settlement ne [...]
2006-11-22 11:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4835FORMER PA MINISTER SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FORMER PA MINISTER AND CURRENT MEMBER OF THE FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL (FRC) ABD-AL-AZIZ SHAHIN (ABU ALI) WAS SHOT BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN NOVEMBER 21. SHAHIN, A CLOSE ALLY OF PLC MEMBER MOHAMAD DAHLAN, WAS MODERATELY WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK. SHAHIN IS IN GAZA'S AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL IN MODE [...]
2006-11-22 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4844TEACHERS RECEIVE BALANCE OF NOVEMBER SALARIES;
[...] (C) PA PRESIDENCY ECONOMIC ADVISOR MOHAMMED MUSTAFA CONFIRMED TO ECONCHIEF NOVEMBER 22 THAT THE PRESIDENCY WAS PAYING THE BALANCE OF PA TEACHERS NOVEMBER SALARIES THROUGH BANKS OUT OF FUNDS THE PRESIDENCY HAD RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF KUWAIT. ARAB BANK, BANK OF PALESTINE, AND BANK OF JORDAN [...]
2006-11-24 14:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4849EU-BAM CHAIRS THIRD COORDINATION AND EVALUATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A PRODUCTIVE THIRD MEETING OF THE COORDINATION AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE (CEC),ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS MADE PROGRESS TOWARDS TACKLING OUTSTANDING ISSUES CONCERNING OPERATIONS AT THE RAFAH CROSSING POINT, INCLUDING: -- UPDATING THE PALESTINIAN POPULATION REGISTRY AND HAND [...]
2006-11-27 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBTS PTER ETRD KWBG IS EG
06JERUSALEM4863ALLOWANCES PAID TO PA EMPLOYEES IN NOVEMBER
[...] (C) Summary: The PA government paid all PA employees an allowance of NIS 1000 (USD 233),starting November 25 in Gaza and November 28 in the West Bank. The Union of Public Employees called on PA employees to pick up their allowances but to continue the general strike. The Temporary Internat [...]
2006-11-30 15:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4893PA HEALTH SECTOR UNION AGREES TO END STRIKE;
[...] (C) Summary: The PA government and the PA health sector employees union reached an agreement December 3 to end the health sector strike with payment of salary arrears. Health sector employees are scheduled to return to work December 5 but vowed to restart the strike if salary payments are not [...]
2006-12-04 16:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG QA
06JERUSALEM4905AL-MAGHAZI REFUGEE CAMP: WOMEN BENEFIT FROM USG
[...] SUMMARY: ConGen PD Specialist traveled to the al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on November 28 to visit a sewing factory run by the Palestinian NGO, Palestine Save the Children Foundation (PSCF),and to monitor the project funded by a USG grant. He met with Ali Mansour, the Director of PSCF, [...]
2006-12-06 13:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM KWBG
06JERUSALEM4909SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE WORK UNDERWAY NEAR NEW
[...] (C) Summary: A Palestinian foreman working at the construction site of the new Israeli police station located in the E-1 area east of Ma'ale Adumim told poloff December 6 that he had seen plans for the construction of a 600-unit housing complex adjacent to the police station. The foreman said [...]
2006-12-06 15:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4915LETTER FROM PA PRESIDENT ABBAS TO THE SECRETARY
[...] (U) Action request for the Department in paragraph 2. 2. (C) President Abbas has written to the Secretary regarding an attempt to take control of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) as a result of a U.S. court ruling in the Ungar case. The PIF has retained its own U.S. legal counsel to [...]
2006-12-07 13:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEINV EFIN KWBG
06JERUSALEM4917SEPARATION BARRIER AND THE VILLAGE OF SHEIKH SA'AD
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinians living in the Sheikh Sa'ad neighborhood, just southeast of the Jerusalem municipal boundary, are awaiting a ruling from the Israeli High Court regarding the route of the separation barrier. The separation barrier was erected in September 2002 and cuts through the nei [...]
2006-12-07 14:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4920THREE EAST JERUSALEM HOMES AND ONE BUSINESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AN EAST JERUSALEM BUSINESS WAS DEMOLISHED DECEMBER 5 AND THREE EAST JERUSALEM HOMES WERE DEMOLISHED OR PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED DECEMBER 6. ALL OF THE AFFECTED STRUCTURES HAD RECEIVED ORDERS OF DEMOLITION FOR LACKING BUILDING PERMITS, THOUGH AT LEAST TWO OF THE THREE HOMES WERE PARTIA [...]
2006-12-08 15:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4932UN'S 2007 CONSOLIDATED APPEAL REACHES USD 453.6
[...] (SBU) On December 7, UN representatives in Jerusalem announced the launch of the 2007 consolidated appeal for 12 UN agencies and 14 NGOs. The USD 453.6 million emergency appeal is designed to help meet the growing humanitarian need in the Palestinian territories. This amount represents a 15 [...]
2006-12-11 14:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM4933EFFORTS TO PREVENT DEMOLITION OF DARI HOME IN EAST
[...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Dari's home in the Issawiyah neighborhood of East Jerusalem was demolished December 11 after efforts by the Israeli NGOs Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions to stop the demolition failed. Rabbis for Human Rights told ConGen PolOff on De [...]
2006-12-11 15:52:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4979SHIKAKI ON HAMAS AND PUBLIC OPINION
[...] (C) Begin Summary. In a December 14 meeting with USSC Dayton, Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, assessed that Abu Mazen can reach an agreement on a new government with what he described as the "moderate" element of Hamas. Shikaki said that he b [...]
2006-12-18 05:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
06JERUSALEM5000FAYAD CALLS FOR LEADERSHIP, SUGGESTS BARGHOUTI IN
[...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. SENATORS MCCAIN (AZ),LIEBERMAN (CT),COLLINS (ME),THUNE (SD),AND REPRESENTATIVE KIRK (IL) MET DECEMBER 18 WITH PLC MEMBER AND FORMER MINISTER OF FINANCE SALAM FAYYAD AND SAID AFTERWARDS THAT THEY WERE UPLIFTED BY HIS OPTIMISM IN THE FACE OF A WORSENING PALESTINIAN CRISIS [...]
2006-12-19 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM50052006 OLIVE HARVEST: HIGH YIELD EXCEEDS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 2006 Palestinian olive harvest was very successful and is expected to produce USD 100 million in olive oil sales - tripling the USD 30 million earned in 2005. (Note: Olive harvests are cyclical, with each low year followed by a high year - 2006 was a cyclical high year fo [...]
2006-12-20 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD ECON PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM5007CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION: PROSPECT OF EARLY
[...] (C) Begin Summary. In a December 20 meeting with PolChief, the Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chief Electoral Officer Hisham Kuhail said he thinks PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is using consultations with the CEC on possible early elections to pressure Hamas and that [...]
2006-12-21 05:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
06JERUSALEM5021EREKAT TELLS CODEL KERRY TO EXPECT ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) Begin Summary. Noting that PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is serious about calling early elections, PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat told Senators Kerry and Dodd in a December 21 meeting that Fatah needs internal party reform, assistance to security forces, and the prospect of a [...]
2006-12-21 15:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
06JERUSALEM5030EU-BAM CHAIRS THIRD COORDINATION AND EVALUATION
[...] (U) ACTION REQUEST FOR THE DEPARTMENT IN PARAGRAPH 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: DURING A PRODUCTIVE BUT MORE EMOTIONAL FOURTH MEETING OF THE COORDINATION AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE (CEC),ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS CONTINUED THEIR SLOW PROGRESS ON TACKLING OUTSTANDING ISSUES CONCERNING OPERATIONS AT [...]
2006-12-22 13:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBTS PTER ETRD KWBG IS EG
06JERUSALEM5031KARNI/AL-MINTAR CROSSING CALL CENTER CONTINUES TO
[...] (U) This is a joint cable with Embassy Tel Aviv. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Palestinian companies, including several representing U.S. firms, continue to charge that a call center established by the GOI late last year to coordinate the flow of goods through the Karni/al-Mintar crossing fuels cor [...]
2006-12-22 14:37:00Consulate JerusalemSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN PGOV KWBG KCOR IS
06JERUSALEM5048QADURA FARIS: ABBAS-OLMERT MEETING, PRISONERS,
[...] (C) Begin Summary. Fatah grassroots leader Qadura Faris told the Consul General in a December 27 meeting that he anticipates Palestinians will disappointed by the implementation of Israeli gestures announced after the December 23 meeting between PA President Abbas and PM Olmert and that this [...]
2006-12-28 05:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
06JERUSALEM5049QADURA FARIS: ABBAS-OLMERT MEETING, PRISONERS,
[...] (C) Begin Summary. Fatah grassroots leader Qadura Faris told the Consul General in a December 27 meeting that he anticipates Palestinians will disappointed by the implementation of Israeli gestures announced after the December 23 meeting between PA President Abbas and PM Olmert and that this [...]
2006-12-28 05:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
06JERUSALEM5050ABBAS, FATAH OLD GUARD CLASH ON GAZA FIELD
[...] (C) Summary. President Abbas created a 17-member Fatah field committee for Gaza December 23 to lead reform and mobilization efforts, and plans to establish a similar committee for the West Bank shortly. Fatah Central Committee (FCC) powerbrokers are resisting efforts to bypass them, however [...]
2006-12-28 08:59:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV IS KPAL
06JERUSALEM5055PALESTINIAN IT COMPANIES SAY RESTRICTIONS ON U.S
[...] (U) This cable has been cleared by FCS Tel Aviv. 2. (C) Summary. West Bank-based representatives of U.S. companies complain that Israeli restrictions on IT products entering the West Bank and Gaza result in significant delays and high transportation costs. Identical products offered by [...]
2006-12-28 14:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM5056RESTRICTED THROUGHPUT AT KARNI/AL-MINTAR CROSSING
[...] (C) Summary: By operating at limited capacity, the Karni/al-Mintar crossing continues to deprive Gaza factories of raw materials and reliable access to markets, according to Gaza industrialists. The Palestinian Federation of Industry estimates that Gaza's industrial sector has suffered more [...]
2006-12-28 15:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EIND ETRD KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM5057KARNI/AL-MINTAR CROSSING OPERATIONS FAVOR ISRAELI
[...] (C) Summary: Gaza residents report that Israeli-produced goods are capturing greater market share in Gaza as a result of Karni/al-Mintar crossing closures and reduced operations. They attribute the trend to the difficulties faced by West Bank companies in shipping their goods to Gaza, the ex [...]
2006-12-28 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM5060HANIYAH EXITS RAFAH BY CAR; GAZA INFIGHTING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. PA PRIME MINISTER ISMAYIL HANIYAH EXITED RAFAH BY VEHICLE DECEMBER 28, VIOLATING PROTOCOLS REQUIRING ALL PERSONS TO CROSS THE BORDER ON FOOT EXCEPT VIPS WITH PRIOR COORDINATION, ACCORDING TO EU-BAM. 300 PALESTINIANS WHO CROSSED THE BORDER FROM EGYPT NEAR THE 1630 CLOSING TIME W [...]
2006-12-29 12:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PTER IS KPAL
06JERUSALEM5064CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH PALESTINIAN POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. During their December 28 meetings with Senator Specter, PLC members Salam Fayyad, Hanan Ashrawi and Sa,eb Erekat emphasized (1) the reconstruction of PA security forces, (2) reform within Fatah, and (3) renewed efforts in a rapid, viable negotiating process. Erekat praised PA P [...]
2006-12-29 13:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM5065MASKIYYOT: NEW SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT OPPOSITE
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to the Maskiyyot pre-army school on December 29, students told Poloff that houses for 30 families evacuated from Gush Katif would be constructed in a separate, uncleared area, opposite the highway from the school. Peace Now's chief settlement watcher told Poloff [...]
2006-12-29 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM529PA DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER CONFIRMS ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority Deputy Finance Minister Jihad al-Wazir confirmed that the Israeli clearance revenue transfer would appear in the PA's bank account February 7. He asked for USG assistance in obtaining letters from the Saudi and Qatari government by February 7 that noted th [...]
2006-02-06 17:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN KBIO KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM530PA DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER CONFIRMS ISRAEL
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority Deputy Finance Minister Jihad al-Wazir confirmed that the Israeli clearance revenue transfer would appear in the PA's bank account February 7. He asked for USG assistance in obtaining letters from the Saudi and Qatari government by February 7 that noted th [...]
2006-02-06 18:02:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN KBIO KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM561HAMAS GOVERNMENT TALKS ONGOING IN CAIRO
[...] (C) Senior Hamas officials, representing the political leadership in Gaza and Damascus, February 6 commenced talks in Cairo on the formation of the next Palestinian cabinet. The Damascus delegation included Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mish'al, deputy chief Musa Abu Marzouk, and burea [...]
2006-02-07 16:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM EG
06JERUSALEM563PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WILL DISBURSE SALARIES,
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Palestinian Authority (PA) Deputy Finance Minister Jihad al-Wazir confirmed February 7 that he will disburse salaries February 8 since he has managed to cobble together almost USD 113 million. He does not yet have enough to cover unemployment, retirement, or social b [...]
2006-02-08 04:40:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN KBIO KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM581ABU MAZEN'S OFFICE STRATEGIZING FOR HAMAS-LED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor Ghaith al-Omari told Consul General February 7 that his office is working to formulate a response to HAMAS's victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. Al-Omari said the PA is considering a number of ideas to strengthen presidential cont [...]
2006-02-08 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM585PALESTINE INVESTMENT FUND MOVED UNDER PRESIDENT
[...] (SBU) President Abbas issued a presidential decree February 4, 2006, that named a new board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) and moved the PIF under the responsibility of the President and away from the PA cabinet. According to the presidential decree which the ConGen has seen, the cha [...]
2006-02-08 14:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN KBIO KWBG
06JERUSALEM606APPROACHING PA TO QUELL VIOLENT REACTIONS TO
[...] (C) In accordance with ref (a),Consul General raised issue of taking active, public measures to calm the controversy in connection with publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed with President Mahmoud Abbas on February 9 (other topics septel). President Abbas agreed with the seriousness [...]
2006-02-09 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL KPAO XF
06JERUSALEM607BIO-DATA ON RUMORED NEW PALESTINIAN PM
[...] (U) Press reporting of the HAMAS meetings with Egyptian officials in Cairo suggested that HAMAS may nominate Jamal al-Khudari as Prime Minister designate. Jamal al-Khudari is a prominent businessman and independently elected PLC member from the Gaza City district. While al-Khudari ran as an [...]
2006-02-09 15:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM611ORGANIZED LOOTING OF FORMER SETTLEMENT GREENHOUSES
[...] (C) Summary: On February 6 and 7, armed men looted greenhouses in a former settlement in Gaza. USAID reported that 250 dunums of greenhouses in the former settlement of Gan-Or sustained heavy damage. Although the police arrested 50 looters, only 14 cases have been turned over to the Attorn [...]
2006-02-09 19:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR PGOV EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM612ORGANIZED LOOTING OF FORMER SETTLEMENT GREENHOUSES
[...] (C) Summary: On February 6 and 7, armed men looted greenhouses in a former settlement in Gaza. USAID reported that 250 dunums of greenhouses in the former settlement of Gan-Or sustained heavy damage. Although the police arrested 50 looters, only 14 cases have been turned over to the Attorn [...]
2006-02-09 19:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR PGOV EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM620ABDUCTION OF EGYPTIAN DIPLOMAT POSSIBLE WARNING TO
[...] (C) The kidnapping of Egyptian diplomat Husam al-Musly February 9 in Gaza has been met with condemnation by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Initial press reports link the kidnapping to Fatah-affiliated factions aggrieved over their non-inclusion in the PA security services and/or s [...]
2006-02-10 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL KWBG EG
06JERUSALEM666MOI DG SALAMAH: HAMAS WILL NOT COLLAPSE QUICKLY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: PA Interior Ministry Director General Ibrahim Salamah told Poloff and USSC staff during a February 13 meeting that he disagreed with predictions of a rapid collapse of a HAMAS-led government. Salamah said HAMAS is capable of enduring international pressure for quite some time tha [...]
2006-02-14 16:10:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM67PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) January 4 delivered a letter to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) requesting that the commission be "relieved of its duties" for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. CEC Chief Elector [...]
2006-01-05 17:09:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM670PLC CONVENES, MAKES SOME CHANGES TO STATUS QUO,
[...] (C) The current Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) met February 13 in Ramallah and Gaza (via DVC) and took a number of controversial decisions, including the approval of a draft law giving President Mahmud Abbas the power to appoint judges without PLC endorsement to the Constitutional Court [...]
2006-02-14 16:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KDEM KWBG
06JERUSALEM692FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO
[...] (C) Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Nasser Al Qidwa asserted in a February 15 briefing of foreign diplomats that the election results do not give Hamas a popular mandate to change the legal, social, or political basis of the Palestinian system. He declared the election results prove P [...]
2006-02-15 15:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM693MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)-elect member Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi denied reports emanating from Hamas sources that he or other individuals from his faction, "Independent Palestine", were engaged in negot [...]
2006-02-15 16:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM720INCOMING FATAH PLC MEMBERS TAKE 'WAIT AND SEE'
[...] (C) Summary. In separate February 15 meetings with ConGen Poloff, newly elected Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members Dr. Emile Jarjou'i and Dr. Bernard Sabella, urged caution from both Fatah and the international community in its approach toward the incoming Hamas-led govern [...]
2006-02-17 11:09:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM723JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (2/17): HAMAS IN A NEW
[...] Columnist Samih Shbeib commented in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Following the Formation of the [Palestinian] Legislative [Council]" (2/17): "Israel and the United States do not view Hamas as a political party capable of standing up to recent Middle East developments, and accordi [...]
2006-02-17 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM725NEW PLC: POSITIVE ABU MAZEN SPEECH; HAMAS
[...] (C) In the February 18 swearing-in of the new Palestinian Legislative Council, President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) asked Hamas to form the next government, but also attempted to bind Hamas to negotiations with Israel based on previous agreements and President Bush's vision of a two-state solu [...]
2006-02-18 16:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM79OLIVE GROVE DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN WEST BANK VILLAGE
[...] (SBU) Palestinian villagers from the southern West Bank village of Juwaya January 6 discovered 102 olive trees -- planted over 30 years ago -- deliberately cut down, presumably by settlers residing in nearby Ma'on settlement. According to contacts from the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT),[...]
2006-01-06 17:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PHUM
06JERUSALEM795EREKAT URGING ABU MAZEN TO TAKE TOUGH STAND
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 22 meeting with NEA DAS Dibble and the Consul General, PLO Chief Negotiator Dr. Sa'eb Erekat said that he had urged Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to stand firm against Hamas. Erekat, who speculated that Hamas could announce the [...]
2006-02-23 17:12:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM799GI CHIEF AL-TIRAWI OFFERS IDEAS ON PASF CONTROL,
[...] (S) In a February 23 meeting with PolChief, General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) Chief Tawfiq al-Tirawi said he favors plans to retain presidential control of the PA Security Forces (PASF) through the creation of an Officers Committee and a restructured National Security Council (NSC). With regar [...]
2006-02-24 15:28:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM80PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Hamas January 5 endorsed a Code of Conduct for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections that it had earlier refused to sign in October. The Chief Electoral Officer for the Central Elections Commission (CEC),Ammar Dweik, reported that Abu Mazen had yet t [...]
2006-01-06 18:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM800PA MINISTRY: LET HAMAS FAIL BY THEMSELVES
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Consul General, Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Housing and Public Works Shtayyeh urged donors not to stop assistance to the Palestinians. Shtayyeh asserted that Hamas would not be able to govern and would be in office only temporarily. He ad [...]
2006-02-24 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EAID PREL KWBG
06JERUSALEM801SALAM FAYYAD ON HAMAS
[...] (C) In meetings with NEA DAS Dibble and Consul General on February 22, Third Way party leader Salam Fayyad discussed Hamas' plans and the challenges they would face once in power. Consul General and DAS Dibble emphasized the need for other parties to stay out of government so that Hamas would [...]
2006-02-24 15:36:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV
06JERUSALEM802FAYYAD AND AL-WAZIR ON PA'S CURRENT AND FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary: Salam Fayyad said February 22 he did not think a Hamas-led government would receive large amounts of external assistance. Fayyad said he thought the PA could manage to survive to May or mid-June but only by liquidating assets in the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF). PA Deputy Fi [...]
2006-02-24 16:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM805FAYYAD DESCRIBES FLUID POLITICAL SITUATION,
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 25 meeting with visting NEA Assistant Secretary Welch, Third Way party leader and former Finance Minister Salam Fayyad described the political situation as fluid, with Hamas likely to take longer to form a government than previously anticipated and not likely to las [...]
2006-02-27 07:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM818PLC INDEPENDENTS WARN FINANCIAL PRESSURE COULD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PLC moderates Hanan Ashrawi (Third Way) and Mustafa Barghouti (Independent Palestine) told NEA A/S Welch during separate meetings on February 25 that international financial pressure could lead to a collapse of the PA and a breakdown in security. Ashrawi and Barghouti urged the US [...]
2006-02-28 07:23:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM819A/S WELCH 2/25 MEEETING WITH SA'EB EREKAT
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 25 meeting in Ramallah, PLO chief negotiator Sa,eb Erekat told visiting NEA A/S Welch that Fatah would not join a Hamas government unless Hamas agreed to President Abbas, platform of peaceful negotiations. The Hamas cabinet would therefore likely consist of Ham [...]
2006-02-28 08:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM820AKRAM HANIYYAH: HAMAS GOVERNMENT IS TEST CASE FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Akram Haniyyeh, a key adviser to President Abbas and the publisher of Palestinian daily "Al Ayyam," told visiting NEA A/S Welch that Hamas, takeover of the Palestinian Authority would mark the first time a Sunni Islamist movement assumed the reins of government; its success or fa [...]
2006-02-28 08:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM836RESPONSE TO SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) No evidence exists of trafficking in persons in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, according to the PA Ministry of Labor and local NGOs. The West Bank and Gaza Strip is neither a territory of origin nor a destination for international trafficking in men, women, or children. Traffickers who [...]
2006-02-28 15:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREL PREF PGOV PHUM ELAB SMIG KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM887LETTER FROM NEW (HAMAS) PLC SPEAKER TO CONSUL
[...] On March 1, Post received a fax from Aziz Dweik, newly elected speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Text in paragraph 2; Post does not intend to respond to this letter. 2. Begin text: HE Mr. Jacob Walles Consul General of the United States Jerusalem Your Excellency, It [...]
2006-03-02 13:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM888IRANIAN FINANCING FOR HAMAS?
[...] (S) ConGen contacts in Fatah and the PA have not been able to confirm press reports that Iran pledged to provide USD 250 million in funding to the incoming Hamas government. However, our contacts do agree that Hamas is reaching out to countries such as Iran to obtain funding in the face of Isr [...]
2006-03-02 13:33:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETPREL EFIN KPAL KWBG IR
06JERUSALEM903FORMER JERUSALEM PLC MEMBER ASSESSES HAMAS, ABU
[...] (C) Summary. During a March 2 meeting with ConGen Poloff, former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Ziad Abu Zayyad (Jerusalem, independent) provided his assessment of the challenges confronting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the new PLC. On Hamas forming the next Palestinia [...]
2006-03-03 17:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM906KARNI CLOSURE CAUSING FOOD SHORTAGE IN GAZA
[...] (SBU) The West Bank/Gaza Country Director for the World Food Program (WFP) Arnold Vercken told ECON and USAIDOffs March 3 that the continued closure of the Karni crossing was rapidly depleting food stocks in Gaza and leading to substantial price increases. He noted that, between January and [...]
2006-03-03 17:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF EAID ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM936PLANNED MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE STIRS CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction February 22 halting construction of the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, funded by the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, and appointed former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar to lead a 30-day mediation period. The first arbitratio [...]
2006-03-06 15:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM954OCHA REPORTS ON DIFFICULTIES PALESTINIAN FARMERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 1 briefing to diplomats, UN OCHA head David Shearer said Palestinian farmers continued to face difficulties reaching their land in the "seam-zone" -the West Bank area lying between the separation barrier and the Green Line. The difficulties centered on a restrictive [...]
2006-03-07 13:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF EAID ECON KWBG
06JERUSALEM955RAJUB: ABU MAZEN MUST SHOW LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 6 meeting with the Consul General, former PA National Security Advisor Jibril Rajub repeatedly called for Abu Mazen to show strong leadership on internal Fatah reform and executive powers. Rajub withheld judgment on the March 4-6 meetings of the Fatah Revolutionary [...]
2006-03-07 13:34:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM974PLC SUSPENDS PROCEEDINGS AMIDST FATAH/HAMAS RANCOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker Aziz Dweik suspended PLC sessions for two weeks following a rancorous March 6 session that featured a Fatah walkout and the passage of a HAMAS-sponsored resolution that revoked a series of expanded presidential powers and bureaucratic [...]
2006-03-08 16:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM994UN AGENCIES APPEAL FOR USD 1.25 MILLION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Three United Nations agencies -- the World Health Organization (WHO),the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- issued an appeal March 6 to local donors for USD 1.25 million for emergency medical supplies for the Palestinian A [...]
2006-03-09 12:55:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON EAID PGOV KWBG
06JOHANNESBURG202SOUTH AFRICA: ROLE OF NEDLAC
[...] Summary: The National Economic Development and Labor Council (NEDLAC) celebrated its tenth anniversary last year, amid some questions about its utility in creating social consensus on government policy. NEDLAC, established in 1995, is a forum designed to promote social dialogue and brings t [...]
2006-06-08 12:47:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG205SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER"THE ASSAY" -
[...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chrom [...]
2006-06-09 15:52:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG ECON ELAB SF ZI
06JOHANNESBURG335SOUTH AFRICAN COAL INDUSTRY: COAL IN THE GLOBAL SETTING,
[...] (U) Introduction: This is the first of a four-part cable dealing with coal and the important role it plays in the South African economy. Part 1 provides a background to coal, relative to other energy sources, and South Africa's position in the global coal market place. End Introduction. S [...]
2006-09-08 15:06:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG337THE SOUTH AFRICAN COAL INDUSTRY: PART II -- COAL IN SOUTH
[...] (U) Introduction: This is the second of a four-part cable dealing with coal and the important role coal plays in the South African economy. Part 2 provides an in-depth look at the South African coal industry, from coalfields to production, uses and exports. It also looks at the infrastructur [...]
2006-09-08 15:44:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG338THE SOUTH AFRICAN COAL INDUSTRY: PART III -- PLANS AND
[...] (U) Introduction: This is the third of a four-part cable dealing with coal and the important role it plays in the South African economy. Part 3 provides information on some of the new and expansion projects underway and planned clean-coal developments. It reviews some of the policies and leg [...]
2006-09-08 16:01:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENGR ECON SENV SF
06JOHANNESBURG339THE SOUTH AFRICAN COAL INDUSTRY: PART IV -- AFRICAN COAL
[...] (U) Introduction: This is the fourth and last of a four-part cable dealing with coal and the important role it plays in the South African economy. Part 4 provides information on some of the coal-related developments in other African countries. Reftel A provides a summary for all four sections [...]
2006-09-08 16:54:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG415SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" --
[...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chrom [...]
2006-10-20 15:04:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN EPET ENRG ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG416SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" --
[...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chrom [...]
2006-10-20 15:05:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG EINV EPET ECON SF CH
06JOHANNESBURG467SOUTH AFRICA: STATE OF ALUMINUN INDUSTRY
[...] (U) The South African aluminum industry is well developed and a major contributor to the economy. During 2005, primary and semi-fabricated aluminum sales amounted to 920,000 tons valued at about $1.7 billion, of which exports accounted for more than 70% by mass and value. All plants are curre [...]
2006-11-17 13:04:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ETRD ENRG ECON ELAB EIND SF
06JOHANNESBURG468SWAZILAND: RECLISA CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE URGES FREE AND
[...] Representatives of the Swazi Ministries of Education and of Enterprise and Employment, academia, NGOs and media, as well as the International Labor Organization (ILO),attended a conference on Child Labor in Manzini, Swaziland, from November 7-8. The conference, held under the auspices of the [...]
2006-11-17 14:31:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM SOCI ECON SW
06JOHANNESBURG474SOUTH AFRICA: TRADE UNION VIEWS ON BLACK ECONOMIC
[...] Major trade union federations in South Africa actively support the goals of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE),but have specific criticisms relating to its implementation. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) argues that BEE is insufficiently broad-based and fails to emphasize j [...]
2006-11-24 16:12:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG95SOUTH AFRICA: SERIOUS POWER DISRUPTIONS IN THE WESTERN CAPE
[...] SUMMARY: (U) Recent power outages in the Western Cape have resulted in major financial losses in the retail and tourism industries, with the Cape Chamber of Commerce predicting losses in the millions. Further outages and/or rolling blackouts are likely until Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear powe [...]
2006-03-13 09:27:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDENRG PGOV ASEC SF
06KABUL1022VISIT OF SECRETARY OF COMMERCE CARLOS GUTIERREZ TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez visited Afghanistan February 28 to March 1. Secretary Gutierrez met with GOA President Karzai, Minister of Commerce Arsala, participated in a roundtable with Afghan International Chamber of Commerce executives and members of parliament, bus [...]
2006-03-08 11:40:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN PREL OPIC EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL1023COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR PM VISIT
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Dr. John Hillen, Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, Tom Canahuate, SIPDIS Action Officer,PM/RSAT, Amy Coletta, Program Analyst, PM/PPA, and Richard G. Kidd, IV, Officer Director, PM/WRA and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on Ma [...]
2006-03-08 12:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA OVIP MARR AF
06KABUL1026PRT/LASHKAR GAH - POPPY ERADICATION MOVING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Helmand Governor Daud told PRToffs on March 6 that Taliban forces are moving into Helmand and are likely to attack the Afghan Eradication Force (AEF). The governor is also concerned that there may be attacks in other districts due to the large security commitment to the eradic [...]
2006-03-08 17:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL1045NATO-AFGHAN COOPERATION PROGRAM - GOA AND NATO
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Wardak and National Security Advisor called a meeting of NATO Ambassadors on March 9 to discuss draft language for the Afghan Cooperation Program negotiations, to take place in Brussels on March 13-15. The Afghan side has added a substantial amount of new lan [...]
2006-03-09 15:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF
06KABUL107PRT/TARIN KOWT: SUICIDE BOMB TARGET UNCLEAR; PRT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Contrary to media reports, the January 5 suicide bombing in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, did not take place in proximity to Ambassador Neumann and was probably intended as an attack on senior police officials ) although the actual motive is not yet known. A final casualty count of app [...]
2006-01-09 14:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV AF
06KABUL1089POLICE REFORM: REGIONAL COMMANDS AND RAPID
[...] (C) Summary: The GOA has a pressing need for an Afghan National Police (ANP) that can respond to counter civil disturbances as well as law enforcement cases. As foreseen ref A, Ambassador Neumann and LTG Eikenberry discussed and jointly agreed to a revised approach developed by OSC-A and IN [...]
2006-03-14 08:52:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR SNAR PREL AF
06KABUL1103PRT/TARIN KOWT - TALIBAN REMAIN POTENT THREAT IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY. The security environment in the province of Uruzgan in southern Afghanistan remains grave. The Taliban threat has not diminished over time and may increase in the near term. The provincial government - only marginally effective on the best of days - shows signs of surrendering [...]
2006-03-14 15:55:00Embassy KabulSECRETPTER MARR SNAR PGOV SOCI AF
06KABUL1133GOA PROPOSES AUXILIARY POLICE, REQUESTS USG FUNDING
[...] (C) Summary: The Afghan Ministry of Interior has developed a plan for 9,210 &auxiliary police8 to supplement the 62,000 policemen authorized for the Afghan National Police force. It is looking for U.S. funding to support the plan, at a cost of at least USD 25 million for the first year. Th [...]
2006-03-16 14:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR SNAR PREL EFIN AF
06KABUL116KARZAI DISSATISFIED; WORRIES ABOUT NEWSWEEK; PLANS
[...] (C) Summary: President Karzai is flailing at Newsweek for writing that one of his brothers is a drug dealer. Karzai will make a new push on narcotics eradication. The President criticized our announcing the withdrawal of U.S. forces after NATO comes in. This suggests he has had negative f [...]
2006-01-10 06:22:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL SNAR AF
06KABUL12PRT/TARIN KOWT: URUZGAN PREPARES FOR SPRING
[...] (U) Summary: PRT Tarin Kowt is helping Uruzgan Province plan and prepare to avert a replay of last year,s devastating spring floods that left hundreds dead and thousands homeless. Along with a number of concrete local projects, the PRT has focused on building the local administration,s respo [...]
2006-01-02 11:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV SENV AF
06KABUL120ELIMINATION/ERADICATION UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings over the past weeks, INL Kabul and the British Embassy Drugs Team (BEDT) have worked closely with officials from the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) to finalize governor- and centrally-led eradication plans. A key compone [...]
2006-01-10 13:46:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KABUL1201Afghanistan: Ambassador Gross Promotes
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy visited Afghanistan February 25-27, 2006 to meet with senior Afghan government officials, including Vice President Massoud and the newly created Parliamentary Committee on Communicati [...]
2006-03-19 09:34:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV ECON PREL OPIC EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL1211NEW GOVERNOR OR URUZGAN PROVINCE TAKES OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Malawi Hakim MONIB, President Karzai's appointee as new Governor of Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, arrived in Tarin Kowt on the morning of March 18 nearly three weeks after his appointment. Outgoing Governor Jan Mohammed Khan greeted Monib graciously, pledging support [...]
2006-03-19 13:36:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI AF
06KABUL1214COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CODEL HOEKSTRA
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Rep. Peter Hoekstra, (R-MI),Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI); Rep. John Shadegg, R-AZ); Rep. Mark Souder, (R-IN); Rep. C.A. (Dutch) Ruppersberger, (D-MD); Rep. Todd Tiahrt, (R-KS); and HPSCI Staff David Buckley, Monority Staff Director [...]
2006-03-20 03:35:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AF
06KABUL1218PRT/PATKICA FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF A
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-20 08:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1250PRT/MAZAR-E SHARIF: BALKH PROVINCE POLITICIANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mazar PRToff met with representatives from four political groups from Balkh Province. The representatives planned to travel to Kabul to meet with President Karzai and formally register a complaint against Governor Atta Muhammad Nur (a.k.a. Ustad Atta) for offenses ranging from c [...]
2006-03-22 12:08:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL1267AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO HELMAND; POPPY ERADICATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-22 15:46:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PREL AF
06KABUL1277CODEL HOEKSTRA SEES POPPY PROBLEM FIRST HAND
[...] (C/NF) Summary: INL exposed Codel Hoekstra March 23 to the challenges facing U.S. counternarcotics policy and eradication in Afghanistan firsthand. The morning discussion between the Representatives, Embassy CN officials, CFC-A and the U.K. Embassy CN experts highlighted for the congressmen [...]
2006-03-23 14:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR PREL PGOV AF
06KABUL1281KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. Other [...]
2006-03-23 17:58:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1284PRT/LASHKAR GAH - UK OFFICIALS DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UK officials told Provincial Council (PC) and Mullahs' Council members in separate meetings on March 19 that the UK mission will last at least three years. The mission is in conjunction with the GOA and will focus on several areas: (1) Extending the government's authority [...]
2006-03-24 13:43:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL AF UK
06KABUL1285PRT/LASHKAR GAH - HELMAND VIOLENCE: CAUSES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past year, as the insurgency has gained momentum in Helmand province, security has deteriorated. Causes are varied, complicated, and intertwined. They include: Some blurring of tribal/drug trafficking boundaries; growing Anti-Coalition Militia (ACM) strength; the [...]
2006-03-24 13:44:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL1323COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOHN J. HILLMEYER
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes John J. Hillmeyer, Tajikistan Desk officer, and grants country clearance for his visit to Afghanistan on March 30 - April 2, 2006, to attend the Central - Asian Cucasus Institute "Partership, Trade, and Development in Greater Central Asia". Control Officer is Aaron Jen [...]
2006-03-26 11:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV AF
06KABUL13241267 SANCTIONS LIST MONITORING TEAM WILL URGE CASE
[...] (C) Summary: The focus of the upcoming UN 1267 Sanctions List Monitoring Team visit will be to facilitate the delisting of the new governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Monib. UNAMA officials have been instructed that until delisting has occurred, they are legally barred from supporting any pro [...]
2006-03-26 13:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1325PRT/LASHKAR GAH - JUDICIAL REFORM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A judicial conference sponsored by the PRT on March 20 revealed that lack of education and corruption are major impediments to improving Helmand's judicial system. Participating judges agreed that those engaged in poppy cultivation should be punished. They also lamented th [...]
2006-03-26 14:07:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS PREL AF
06KABUL1328PRT/TARIN KOWT - NEW GOVERNOR OF URUZGAN PROVINCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Abdul Hakim Monib, who took office as Governor of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province on March 18 (reftel),is making a cautious and thoughtful start. Monib is an outsider -- appointed by President Karzai to replace a corrupt and ineffective predecessor -- and he is moving systemati [...]
2006-03-26 14:30:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL1332ABDUL RAHMAN UPDATE - 3-26
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rahman remains in detention as of Sunday evening but events are moving quickly and he is expected to be released on Monday. After some pushing, the Afghans agreed to issue documents on Sunday confirming that the case has been dismissed and Rahman can be released (see paras 6 and [...]
2006-03-26 17:52:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
06KABUL13411267 SANCTIONS LIST MONITORING TEAM WILL URGE CASE
[...] (C) Summary: The focus of the upcoming UN 1267 Sanctions List Monitoring Team visit will be to facilitate the delisting of the new governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Monib. UNAMA officials have been instructed that until delisting has occurred, they are legally barred from supporting any proj [...]
2006-03-27 11:07:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1345AFGHANISTAN ADVOCACY SUCCESS STORY: U.S. POULTRY
[...] (U) Summary: In the wake of Afghanistans first confirmed case of Avian Influenza, Summit Associates, an American company that imports U.S. frozen chicken and eggs, requested Embassy advocacy to intervene with customs officials blocking Summit containers from entering the country and to help l [...]
2006-03-27 15:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL OPIC EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL1353PRT/LASHKAR GAH - MOUSA QALA DISTRCT CHIEF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mousa Qala district chief Mohammed Wali and tribal elders told visiting UK PRT liaison officer, poloff, Poppy Elimination Program (PEP) officer, and USAID representative on March 23 that they are looking forward to better security when UK and Afghan National Army troops deplo [...]
2006-03-28 04:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER EAID PREL ASEC AF
06KABUL1356DIAG PLENARY: "IT'S TIME FOR HONESTY"
[...] (C) Summary: Reviewing the status of the DIAG process, UNAMA Deputy SRSG Alexander told the DIAG Steering Committee that the time has come for honesty. He said there has been little progress since the Parliamentary elections last September, and that until the GOA shows political commitment a [...]
2006-03-28 11:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR AF
06KABUL1358PRT/MAZAR-E SHARIF DOSTUM PRESIDES OVER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Dostum, the paramount warlord in northern Afghanistan, presided over a Feb. 23 ceremony in Sheberghan, capital of Jowzjan Province north of Mazar-e Sharif, during which over 100 of his commanders turned in 2.5 tons of boxed ammunition and roughly 400 small arms, RPG lau [...]
2006-03-28 12:24:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1382FM ABDULLAH'S TRAVAILS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA convoked Charge on fairly short notice on March 28 to what was billed as a farewell event for FM Abdullah, who did not make the cut in President Karzai's proposed Cabinet reshuffle. However, upon arrival, Charge was treated to a 30-minute one-on-one session with the outgoing [...]
2006-03-29 06:07:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1428PARLIAMENT OPPOSES RAHMAN RELEASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Afghanistan's lower house of Parliament, the Wolesi Jirga, pointedly criticized the GOA handling of the Abdul Rahman case during several hours of debate on March 29. Most criticism focused on the perception that the Karzai government caved to foreign pressure, bypassing correct [...]
2006-03-30 03:37:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1439COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO S/A VISIT
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Assistant Secretary Richard A. Boucher and Senior Advisor Caitlin Hayden, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on April 1-4, 2006, for consultations with host government. Control Officer is Angus T. Sim [...]
2006-03-30 11:12:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV AMGT NP OTRA OVIP AF
06KABUL1440CORRECTED COPY: KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. [...]
2006-03-30 11:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL145SENATOR REED MEETS WITH FIRST VICE PRESIDENT MASOOD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH SENATOR REED, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT MASOOD STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT, PARTICULARLY IN THE AGRICULTURAL AND MINERALS SECTORS, FOR AFGHANISTAN'S FUTURE. THE SENATOR ASSURED HIM OF THE UNITED STATES' LONG-TERM COMMITM [...]
2006-01-11 09:19:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID EAGR EINV PK AF
06KABUL146KARZAI MEETS WITH CODEL BAYH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 10 MEETING WITH SENATORS BAYH (D-IND) AND BOND (R-MO) AND REPRESENTATIVE FORD (D-TN),KARZAI OUTLINED THE PROGRESS AFGHANISTAN HAD MADE OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, FOCUSING ON COUNTERNARCOTICS RATHER THAN TERRORISM AS THE REAL CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE. HE REITERAT [...]
2006-01-11 09:25:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID PTER SNAR PK AF
06KABUL1461COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL HAGEL
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Senator Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Staff members Lou Ann Linehan, Rexon Ryu, and Eric Rosenbach, and DOD Cdr. Steve Vahsen, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on April 13-14, 2006, to conduct political, [...]
2006-04-01 05:42:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN ASEC AMGT OREP AF
06KABUL1478WARDAK-HILLEN MEETING: ANA IS IMPROVING, ISAF
[...] (C) Summary. Minister of Defense Wardak said the quality of the ANA is improving and he welcomes recent Coalition planning for joint operations. In a March 20 discussion with visiting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs SIPDIS John Hillen, Minister Wardak said that [...]
2006-04-02 04:52:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER AF
06KABUL1516CHRISTIANS IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After asylum was granted to Abdul Rahman in Italy, attention has shifted towards the greater Christian experience in Afghanistan. Afghan Christians, in large part remain hidden due to the risk of discrimination and violence. No new immediate threat to non-Afghan Christians appears [...]
2006-04-04 16:54:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CASC KIRF AF
06KABUL152TERRORISM FINANCE: POST VETTING
[...] (S) POST DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT DESIGNATING HIG AS A PARTY WOULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON ELIMINATING SOURCES OF FUNDING TO GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR, BUT COULD HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE ONGOING RECONCILIATION PROCESS. AS MENTIONED IN REF A OF REFTEL, THE CURRENT STATUS OF ANY TIES BETWEEN [...]
2006-01-11 13:32:00Embassy KabulSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC AF
06KABUL1525PRT/QALAT - KARZAI VISIT HIGHLIGHTS TRADE
[...] (U) Summary: President Karzai visited Zabul Province for the first time March 28, where he visited the PRT-run Trade School and the new hospital funded by the UAE. He also greeted people in the bazaar. His "pressing the flesh" may improve Zabul's poor security image. End Summary. 2. ( [...]
2006-04-05 11:53:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC AF TC
06KABUL1535COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MARTHA P. AMLIN
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Martha P. Amlin, program officer for Asia and Near East Assistance Office for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM),and grants country clearance for her visit to Afghanistan on April 13, 2006, to meet with staff of UNHCR, NOGs and relevant country ministries. Contro [...]
2006-04-05 16:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PREF AF ASEC
06KABUL1537PRT/MAZAR-E SHARIF - PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MUCH IMPROVED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-06 06:38:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SOCI AF
06KABUL1538ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER MEETS KAZAKH FOREIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-06 07:37:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OVIP AF ECON
06KABUL1544RAHMAN CASE
[...] (C) In the past week Amb has raised the Abdul Rahman case on a one-on-one basis in private meetings with several of Afghanistan's top political leaders, including Vice-President Ziya Massoud, ex-President (and now MP) Burhanuddin Rabbani, MP Abdulrab Rasoul Sayyaf, Wolesi Jirga Speaker Yunu [...]
2006-04-06 12:25:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1545PROGRESS ON UN 1267 SANCTIONS DELISTING REQUEST
[...] (C/REL NATO/ISAF/AUS/NZ) Summary: The Afghan National Security Council is preparing dossiers on the 20 individuals for whom they have requested removal from the 1267 Sanctions list. The UN Team has also requested information from CFC-A, particularly with regard to Uruzgan governor Monib, a [...]
2006-04-06 12:25:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1554THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT: AFGHAN VS AMERICAN BELIEFS
[...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan is in flux, fully exposed to a barrage of new concepts, economic and social change after decades of war, with a populace that both welcomes many changes and yet can react negatively and forcefully when new ideas and events seem to threaten the fragile social structur [...]
2006-04-08 03:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1573PRT/SHARANA - PAKTIKA: THE POLITICS OF LAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Development has expanded rapidly in the last year in Paktika, and so have land disputes. As the pace of development increases, the number of land disputes also increases as parcels of land are identified for schools, roads, and government centers across the province. Paktika [...]
2006-04-09 08:38:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI KJUS EAID AF
06KABUL1615: PSA ASSESSMENT: FARYAB PREY TO WARLORDS, WEAK
[...] (C) Summary: Afghan and senior international leaders assess that the roots of conflict in Faryab province stem both from the rivalry between the two factions of Junbesh and Azadi, and from the weak governance that allows those private militias to operate. In a recent Provincial Security Asses [...]
2006-04-11 11:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC KJUS PREL AF
06KABUL1630PRT/LASHKAR GAH - PROSECUTORS DISCUSS THEIR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a PRT sponsored seminar on March 28, Helmand prosecutors demonstrated a good knowledge of procedures and the applicable sections of the Afghan constitution. They cited lack of evidence and police corruption as the main reasons why many cases are not sent forward to judges. [...]
2006-04-11 11:27:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS SOCI AF
06KABUL1633COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CODEL TIAHRT
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Rep. Todd Tiahrt, Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI),Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Rep. Frank Labiondo, and Professional Staff Members Kathleen Reilly, George Pappas and Michael Delaney, and DOD Maj. Michael Hopkins, and grants country clear [...]
2006-04-11 11:28:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN OREP AMGT ASEC AF
06KABUL1653ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER MEETS KAZAKH FOREIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 09:10:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OVIP AF ECON
06KABUL1667GOA DETAINEES LEGAL WORKING GROUP MOVING AHEAD
[...] (SBU) The Afghan Inter-Ministerial Legal Working Group met on April 5 to discuss the development of a legal framework that would form the basis for transfer of detainees from U.S. custody as well as for the disposition of individuals taken off the battlefield in future. Due to a confusion on [...]
2006-04-12 12:34:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS KAWC PGOV AF
06KABUL1669PRT/TARIN KOWT - SECURITY PROGRAMS GETTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Establishing GOA authority, particularly police authority, in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province is very much a work in progress. The province's two police forces are semi-reformed militias allied to rival warlords. The PRT and coalition forces are making some progress in trainin [...]
2006-04-12 13:42:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR ASEC PTER MARR AF
06KABUL1674PRT/SHARANA - WOMEN'S TRAINING BEGINS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the months of March and April, PRT Sharana funded and conducted Paktika's first women's sewing skills and literacy training activities. These activities trained a total of 38 women from Sharana, Paktika's capital, and Orgun-e, the province's largest population center. The [...]
2006-04-13 06:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI EAID AF
06KABUL1714KARZAI NERVOUS ON PROVINCIAL SECURITY: RESURRECTS
[...] (C) In the wake of recent insurgent activity in the South, President Karzai is afraid he may be losing public confidence in his government's authority in rural provincial districts, and he is once again broaching the idea of raising informal auxiliary police units to provide security in ce [...]
2006-04-17 05:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR MARR PTER EFIN AF PK
06KABUL1715RUSSIANS CONVENE G-8 TO DISCUSS TERRORISM; CHARGE
[...] (C) Russian Ambassador Kabulov called a meeting of G-8 chiefs of mission and other interested parties on April 11 to discuss the issue of countering terrorism in Afghanistan through ideological means. The meeting followed a February 2006 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting in Mosco [...]
2006-04-17 05:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV EFIN AF RU
06KABUL1719ARIANA FLIGHTS TO UAE SUSPENDED
[...] (SBU) Afghan Ministry of Transport officials informed Embassy's FAA representative that an April 14, 2006 ramp inspection of an Ariana aircraft by UAE Civil Aviation Authorities found numerous, serious safety infractions and violations. UAE authorities allowed the plane to return to Kabul wi [...]
2006-04-17 10:47:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON AF
06KABUL1753WOMEN MPS RECEIVE MUCH ATTENTION, FACE MORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Women in the Afghan National Assembly face many challenges: political divisions, sometimes uncoordinated aid efforts, and traditional attitudes. Women are vocal and regular contributors to debate, and hold some key leadership positions, but it is unclear what their impact will [...]
2006-04-19 03:56:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM KWMN AF
06KABUL1769PRT/TARIN KOWT - DUTCH PREPARING FOR ISAF
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The Dutch deployment to Uruzgan province is getting underway. Under NATO'S ISAF Stage III expansion into southern Afghanistan, the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Uruzgan will transfer from U.S. to Dutch-NATO command on or about July 31, 2006. In recent months, several D [...]
2006-04-19 14:58:00Embassy KabulSECRETMARR PTER PREL ASEC SNAR AF NL AS
06KABUL1791AFGHAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES 20 OF 25 MINISTERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On Thursday, April 20, the Afghan National Assembly approved the majority of President Karzai's nominated Cabinet Ministers. Significant confirmations included Engineer Zarar as Minister of Interior and Spanta as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Minister of Culture Raheen and Mini [...]
2006-04-20 15:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL18NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The tone of the second week for Afghanistan's National Assembly (NA) has been positive, with members of parliament open to new ideas and mostly constructive debate. The NA spent the week finalizing its leadership and discussing its rules of procedure. The formation of caucuse [...]
2006-01-02 13:23:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1821PRT/KANDAHAR - DEALING WITH THE TALIBAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The "spring offensive" announced by Taliban leaders in southern Afghanistan a month ago appears to be picking up momentum. During the previous four months the Taliban engaged primarily in small hit and run attacks and improvised explosive bombings, and this remains their pr [...]
2006-04-24 09:16:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC MARR PGOV AF
06KABUL1828PRT/KANDAHAR - RECENT ATTACKS ON CANADIAN-LED
[...] (S) SUMMARY. At 07:30 April 22 near Gumbad in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar Province, an improvised explosive device (IED) killed three Canadian soldiers immediately and one perished later at a military hospital. Three Canadian soldiers were wounded, but not seriously. The four vehicle [...]
2006-04-24 14:05:00Embassy KabulSECRETPTER MARR ASEC AF CA
06KABUL1844NEIGHBORS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR CN COOPERATION AT
[...] Summary: The Acting Afghan Minister of Counternarcotics held a Conference April 13 on regional counternarcotics (CN) cooperation attended by Iran, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan did not participate. Political statements from regional ambassadors focused on the import [...]
2006-04-25 12:01:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SNAR AF
06KABUL186PRT HERAT: FEWER AFGHAN REFUGEES RETURNING FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Latest data from United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate significant increase in Afghan migrant labor in Iran. Undocumented Afghans who turn themselves in to Iranian authorities are treated as spontaneous returnees and given free transportation to the bor [...]
2006-01-14 16:08:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV AF
06KABUL1884PROPOSED POLICE PROGRAM CHANGES TO MEET THREAT
[...] (C) Operationally-focussed shifts in the Afghan police program will address the security situation in the south and to President Karzai's concerns (ref a). The Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A, formerly OSC-A),in coordination with the Embassy, the German Police Pro [...]
2006-04-28 08:58:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER SNAR ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1887PRT/BAMYAN: KHALILI SUPPORTERS MUDDY
[...] (SBU) The supporters of Second Vice President Khalili are playing political hardball, and Governor Sarabi appears to be their target. Minority Tajik unrest, which has received tacit backing from Khalili stalwarts, appears designed to discredit the Governor. The recent appointment of a crony o [...]
2006-04-28 12:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1904ONDCP DIRECTOR DISCUSSES COUNTER-NARCOTICS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-29 15:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV OTRA OVIP SNAR AF
06KABUL1905PRT-GARDEZ TAKING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-30 09:07:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SOCI AF
06KABUL1913COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO S/CT COORDINATOR AND
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Ambassador Henry Crumpton, and Senior Advisor Michael Hurley, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on May 4-7, 2006, to discuss CT issues. Control Officer is Mary Townswick, Deputy Political Counselor, email address: TownswickMN@state.gov, teleph [...]
2006-04-30 12:45:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA PTER ASEC PREL AF
06KABUL1946AFGHAN/IRAN TRANSIT TRADE - A GROWING EMBRACE
[...] (SBU) Afghanistan is deepening its transit trade ties with Iran. Afghan companies are increasingly favoring Iran to transit goods out of frustration with perceived shipping delays, surcharges and corruption in Pakistan. The GoA recently signed a new transit trade agreement with Iran and bo [...]
2006-05-01 10:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PREL AF
06KABUL1968AFGHANISTAN: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-02 10:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKUNR OPDC PHUM PREL UNGA AF
06KABUL1969UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-02 10:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM PREL AF
06KABUL1974PRT-SHARANA COMMUNICATIONS MEANS SECURITY -
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-02 13:51:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECPS PGOV PTER TINT AF
06KABUL1975Afghanistan Border Management Initiative - Fueling
[...] (SBU) The International Border Management Advisory Team (IBMAT) visited Afghanistan April 9 to 17 and conducted an assessment of overall border management activities in Herat province. The IBMAT team corroborated earlier assessments indicating an overall lack of GoA initiative, poor coordina [...]
2006-05-02 13:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EFIN PREL AF
06KABUL197620 MINISTERS SWORN IN; WOLESI JIRGA REVIEWS THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 1 and 2, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament reviewed the GOA budget, posing extensive questions to Minister of Finance Ahadi about the government's finances. During debate, the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) emphasized two points: first, it has the right to closely review the [...]
2006-05-02 14:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1977PRESIDENT KARZAI'S VISIT TO INDIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Karzai had a productive visit to India earlier this month to discuss a variety of bilateral and regional issues. The visit of President Karzai and his 109 member delegation, including nine parliamentarians, religious leaders, and businessmen, reinforced the close r [...]
2006-05-02 14:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAID ETRD EFIN MARR AF IN
06KABUL1994PRIVATIZING ARIANA?
[...] (SBU) Dr. Atash, President of Ariana, plans to breakup Ariana into smaller, more focused companies ahead of a gradual, partial privatization. He is aggressively trying to push this plan through the Afghan Government over the next month. Atash will likely leave as soon as the plan is approve [...]
2006-05-03 10:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAIR ECON AF
06KABUL2007PRT/KUNDUZ: OUT IN BADAKHSHAN'S POPPYLAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. District managers in Jurm and Baharak acknowledge that poppy is being grown in their districts, but claim that the amount of land under cultivation is much less than in previous years. They add, however, that as long as there are no other economic opportunities for the large [...]
2006-05-03 13:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL PGOV PINR AF
06KABUL2008PRT/HELMAND - HELMAND ERADICATION WRAP UP
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-03 14:00:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER KRDP AF
06KABUL2021PRT/HELMAND FROM THE STARS AND STRIPES TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-05 03:24:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL2037PRT/HELMAND - HELMAND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-07 04:12:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL2039PRT/PANJSHIR: U/S VISITS TEAM, MEETS GOV.
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-07 06:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR AMGT AF
06KABUL205PRT/BAMYAN: Can Bamyan Law Enforcement Reform?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Zealand is providing a crucial lifeline to Bamyan law enforcement, but needs more U.S. support for their efforts to take hold. NZ commitments in expertise and infrastructure appear to be making progress, but could yield stronger results with targeted U.S. assistance, namel [...]
2006-01-16 06:01:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SOCI AF
06KABUL2051COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DOL SECURITY ADVANCE
[...] Embassy Kabul welcomes Department of Labor Security Advance Team members Eugene Asa Cunningham, Jon Joseph Metrey and Wayne Emerson Hakes, and grants country clearance for their visit to Afghanistan on May 10, 2006, to advance visit of the US Delegation headed by Under Secretary for Democracy [...]
2006-05-07 12:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA PGOV AF
06KABUL2093PRT/QAL I NOW: BADGHIS PROVINCE SECURITY OVERVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Badghis province Director for of the National Security Directorate (NSD) Mehr Ali offered a provincial security overview to PRToff, including poppy eradication efforts, Taleban influence, the recent slaying of five medical workers, and the police and justice system. Althou [...]
2006-05-10 10:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SNAR SOCI AF
06KABUL2149 A COURSE OF ACTION TO REBALANCE THE ANP
[...] Proper Demographic Representation was emphasized as a method of conducting business by President Karzai and applies to all types of p placing special emphasis on operational effectiveness achieved by establishing a presence and understanding with the community in which the police operate. [...]
2006-05-12 13:39:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR PGOV PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2151 A COURSE OF ACTION TO REBALANCE THE ANP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Course of Action plan outlined below is desig for implementing President Karzai?s decision to re-balance the Afgha in order to address pressing security issues in the south (reftel). by members of the international community involved with building up t the Afghan Ministry [...]
2006-05-12 15:55:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR PGOV PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2154A COURSE OF ACTION TO REBALANCE THE ANP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Course of Action plan outlined below is designed as a guide for implementing President Karzais decision to re-balance the Afghan National Police in order to address pressing g security issues in the south (reftel). This outline will be used by members of the international [...]
2006-05-13 08:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER SNAR ASEC AF
06KABUL2173SPANISH TROOP INCREASE IN QAL I NOW WILL YIELD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-14 11:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID SP AF
06KABUL2178PRT/TARIN KOWT: GOVERNOR MONIB'S TENUOUS GRASP ON URUZGAN PROVINCE
[...] (C) The security situation in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province remains acute seven weeks after the arrival of a new governor. Unhelpful interference by the previous governor, stepped up Taliban activity, and police forces operating outside governmental authority impede Governor Monib's ability [...]
2006-05-14 11:22:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2186PRT/HELMAND: HELMAND GOVERNOR DAUD VOICES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a weekly security meeting on April 17, Helmand Governor Mohammed Daud told PRT officials that the security situation in the province was becoming more critical. In late April, the Governor moved poppy eradication forces to the northern districts, not only to eradicate, but al [...]
2006-05-15 06:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SNAR AF
06KABUL2234EXBS Afghanistan Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable ?
[...] EXBS: The Afghanistan EXBS Advisor issued invitations to the Senior Advisor to the Minister of Commerce and to the Director of International Transit and Trade KABUL 00002234 006.3 OF 006 Facilitation to participate as observers at the 8th Central Asia and Caucasus Regional Forum on Exp [...]
2006-05-16 14:51:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AF
06KABUL2259COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR FSN POLITICAL
[...] Embassy Kabul requests country clearance for Kanishka Bakhshi, FSN Political Assistant, to travel to Islamabad to obtain a visa to the U.S. Mr. Bakhshi has been nominated to participate in the 5th Annual FSN Worldwide Conference to be held in Washington, D.C. June 15-23. 2. Embassy Kabul [...]
2006-05-18 12:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS AF
06KABUL2285OPTIONS FOR US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
[...] (SBU) Officials from the Japanese Embassy in Kabul are anxious to restart work on their portion of the Ring Road between Kandahar and Herat as soon as possible. The Japanese Government is considering all options, including recontracting the work to a non-Japanese contractor. The US Army Corps o [...]
2006-05-20 07:50:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ELTN AF
06KABUL2291PRT/QAL I NOW: RING ROAD IN BADGHIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) recently began construction of a road from the Sabsak pass, on the border between Herat and Badghis provinces, to Qal I Now, the capital of Badghis. This stretch will form part of the Afghanistan Ring Road. A 95-kilometer [...]
2006-05-21 07:29:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ECON EAID KCRS ELTN SP
06KABUL2296PRT/BAMYAN: LAND USE TENSIONS SIMMER IN
[...] (SBU) Uncertainty over land titles seems to be the common denominator in recent disputes in Bamyan. The Governor has intervened personally to defuse Tajik and Hazara tussles over farmland. An unresolved ownership dispute continues to hamper government efforts to regulate coal mining in the p [...]
2006-05-21 08:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON AF
06KABUL2298THE ARDS AND GOA PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES
[...] (SBU) The Afghan Reconstruction Development Service (ARDS,) strives to conduct GOA procurement in accordance with international standards and the GOA Procurement Law, passed in September 2005. Though not all GOA procurement is handled by the ARDS, this office sets a standard to which all gove [...]
2006-05-21 08:38:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN OPIC EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL2319SCO AND MANAS DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 12:43:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS KG IR AF
06KABUL2323PARLIAMENT REJECTS BUDGET
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 21, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament rejected the GOA budget by a clear majority (although with only around half of MPs voting). The impasse occurred after the GOA rejected Parliament's suggested changes to the budget, including an increase in salaries for civil s [...]
2006-05-22 13:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2342PRT/QALAT Q ROMANIAN INTEREST IN PROVINCIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-23 11:11:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER MARR RO AF
06KABUL2354COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO U.S. GOVERNORS TRAVEL
[...] (U) Embassy Kabul welcomes Governor Mitt Romney, Massachusets; Governor Matt Blunt, Missouri; Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, US Army; Governor Brian Schweitzer, Montana; Anthony Welcher, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, DOS; Dan Wilmot, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, DOD; LT [...]
2006-05-24 11:48:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP OTRA PGOV AF
06KABUL2364PARLIAMENT APPROVES ONLY TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On Wednesday, May 24, the Afghan National Assembly approved only two of four Supreme Court Justices put to a vote. The two approved Justices - Mawlawi Mohammad Qasem and Mohammad Aleem Nasemi - are both Pashtun Sharia law faculty graduates. Of the five remaining Justices, thre [...]
2006-05-24 14:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2365KABUL SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INHOFE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. effort in Afghanistan continues to promote economic reconstruction, build democratic institutions and develop the government's capacity to deal with continuing threats to security. The Afghanistan Compact adopted at the January London Conference and Parliament elected [...]
2006-05-24 15:08:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON OTRA AF
06KABUL2366REPORT FROM KANDAHAR: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN U.S.
[...] (S) Conflicting reports about the U.S.-led forces (CJSOTF) attack the evening of May 21 on the village of Azizi in Panjwai district about 25 kilometers from Kandahar City reflect, in part, an ongoing Taliban psychological operations (psyops) campaign to misrepresent coalition military operat [...]
2006-05-24 16:01:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV EAID PTER AF
06KABUL2386BILATERAL DETAINEE AGREEMENTS WITH THE GOA
[...] (C) Summary: Four nations ) Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.K. ) have signed bilateral agreements with the Government of Afghanistan concerning the transfer of detainees. With the exception of Denmark, these nations are already engaged in military action as part of OEF or are lo [...]
2006-05-25 06:54:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PTER PREL AF
06KABUL2387PAKTIKA'S GOVERNOR PUSHES FOR MORE ROADS,
[...] (SBU) In a May 1 visit to the PRT in Sharana, the capital of Paktika, Ambassador met with Governor Khpulwak and local government officials, where he was repeatedly asked for assistance in constructing local roads to complete the provincial network, as well as help in linking the province to [...]
2006-05-25 07:11:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID PTER AF
06KABUL24MP BIO: ALEMI BALKHI
[...] (U) This is the first in a series of biographic reporting cables on Afghanistan's newly elected Parliamentarians. Additional reports will be sent as PolOffs continue to meet personally with new MPs during the coming weeks. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The striking feature of PolOff's December 31 meeting [...]
2006-01-03 07:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2407New ISAF Headquarters Approach to PRTs:
[...] Summary: The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) has assumed the mantle of command of ISAF. They are bringing a commitment and plan of action to the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) program that should bring greater coherence to the effort. We strongly support this initiative, and recom [...]
2006-05-27 11:04:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER MARR AF
06KABUL2410The Iranian Border, Islam Qala and the
[...] (SBU) Commercial traffic at Islam Qala, the major border crossing between Iran and Afghanistan, has declined significantly in the last few months, particularly as transshipped goods destined for Pakistan are diverted to other ports of entry. Yet, truck traffic at the "informal" border crossi [...]
2006-05-28 04:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EFIN ELTN AF
06KABUL2411New ISAF Headquarters Approach to PRTs:
[...] Summary: The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) has assumed the mantle of command of ISAF. They are bringing a commitment and plan of action to the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) program that should bring greater coherence to the effort. We strongly support this initiative, and recom [...]
2006-05-28 06:04:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER MARR AF
06KABUL2424PRT/TARIN KOWT - URUZGAN'S DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Governor Monib, of Uruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan, has been on the job for two months and is still working to build up functioning institutions from the administrative rubble left behind by his incompetent and corrupt predecessor. Visits to Tarin Kowt in recent days b [...]
2006-05-29 12:42:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2425PRT-QALAT - GOVERNOR ARMAN'S FIRST YEAR IN ZABUL:
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Governor Arman has been a strong governor and, overall, Zabul Province has improved over the past year. However, as he well realizes, security and high-level visits are not enough for effective government, and the GoA still lacks the ability to provide goods and services to its [...]
2006-05-29 12:43:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC SNAR KCRS AF
06KABUL2426DEPUTY MINISTER SAIKAL DISCUSSES THE STRATEGIC
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Saikal told PolCouns in a May 21 meeting that the GOA was pleased with the first March 2006 Strategic Partnership dialogue in Washington and hoped to move to substance and outcome in succeeding meetings. He stated that reftel outline for the March dialogue [...]
2006-05-29 12:44:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF
06KABUL2427PRT HERAT - ALLEGED ATTACK ON AMANULLAH KHAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An apparent grenade attack on Shindand/based Amanullah Khan (AK),allegedly launched by his rival Ismael Khan (IK),disrupted plans for his appearance at a May 20 DIAG (Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups) ceremony in Herat. Despite high-level GOA attendance, the ceremony itself [...]
2006-05-29 12:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PGOV AF
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